http://ideas.eyeconx.net/story.php?title=macular-degeneration-improves-with-embryonic-stem-cells-in-pilot-study Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse. A second patient, aged 78, suffered from dry macular degeneration - the leading cause of blindness in t... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:08 EST en