Startup receives grant for clinical trial of a promising eye treatment

research.usc.edu

59 points·lxm··7 comments

> 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.

A bit difficult to cut through the university PR. The actual tech:

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?

It'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.

HN 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.

Very cool. Does anybody have any information on how much improvement they saw in earlier trials?

Wife (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…

Could 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.