{"id":4670,"date":"2016-03-09T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:00:31","slug":"improving-cataracts-outcome-using-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/improving-cataracts-outcome-using-stem-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving cataracts outcome using stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4671\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Picture1-1024x563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4671\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4671\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Picture1-1024x563-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"(Image credit: Kang Zhang MD, PhD; Yizhi Liu, MD, PhD)\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image credit: Kang Zhang MD, PhD; Yizhi Liu, MD, PhD)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new study is showing that preserving the stem cells within the eye might be a more effective way to treat cataracts, at least in children. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers surgically removed the damaged lens using a new technique that allowed them to preserve the lens epithelial stem cells. The minimally invasive surgery facilitated functional lens regeneration in rabbits and macaques, as well as 12 human infant cataract patients. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The infants treated with the new method showed improved results over paediatric patients who received the current standard-of-care treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature17181.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a09<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kang Zhang, Shiley Eye Institute, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, California, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study is showing that preserving the stem cells within the eye might be a more effective way to treat cataracts, at least in children. Researchers surgically removed the damaged lens using a new technique that allowed them to preserve the lens epithelial stem cells. The minimally invasive surgery facilitated functional lens regeneration in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[975,2512,51,53,2513,1288],"class_list":["post-4670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-children","tag-eye","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-sight","tag-stem-cells"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4681,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}