Two patients regain vision damaged by AMD after stem cell treatment trial

Two patients with the most common form of sight-loss have regained their reading vision after ground-breaking treatment.A man in his 80s and a woman in her 60s were given a special "patch" of stem cells to repair the damage to their eyes from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), as part of a small-scale clinical trial.Both went from not being able to read at all, even with glasses, to reading 60-80 words a minute with normal reading glasses.