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Startup receives grant for clinical trial of a promising eye treatment
- 542458 3y agoVery cool. Does anybody have any information on how much improvement they saw in earlier trials?
- spathi_fwiffo 3y agoCould almost mistake it for an NVidia advertisement if you don't read past the headline and picture. "With AMD" you can't see the picture clearly.
- tbrownaw 3y ago> milestone for USC researchers whose stem cell patch is under development to treat advanced dry age-related macular degeneration Teaching human bodies how to regenerate lost / damaged bits is definitely cool.
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoA bit difficult to cut through the university PR. The actual tech: https://regenerativepatch.com/technology https://regenerativepatch.com/technology Seems they developed a full (implantable) membrane as opposed to doing sub-retinal injections and waiting for things to grow. Not obvious to me how the membrane actually gets implanted. If the founders are here I would be curious to find out more?
- nottorp 3y agoIt's not a tech startup so I strongly doubt they're in our particular bubble. Edit: not to mention that with it not being a tech startup, the details will be in the patents when they're made public.
- DoingIsLearning 3y agoHN was a bubble maybe 5 years ago. Nowadays you have all sorts of technical, tech curious, or just people looking for civil discussion. Not just startups and definitely not just CS folks. I know plenty of non-tech people on HN. MDs, Surgeons, Biotech, Pharma, Medical Device people, Agrotech, Physicists, etc. What still surprises me is the quality of moderation despite the increase in users.
- stranded22 3y agoWife (and siblings/mother) has retinitis pigmentosa so I’m very interested to see how regenerative therapy progresses. Hopefully in a few years time, there will be a way to improve their vision which will give them back some of their lives again…