Loading...

Hi there, I just wanted to shout out a couple of researchers that are doing some research on this in Toronto actually. So some people that I work with, Dr. Valerie Wallace and Dr. Akshay Gurdeetha were working on some of these stem cell injection experiments on mice, more of a basic research sort of perspective. But they're looking at some horizontal gene transfer that's happening between these injected cells and the retina that they're being injected into. So it's kind of a confounding factor there, so I'm interested in how these patients are being studied in terms of how these cells are integrating. And if the cells actually are integrating or if it's some of the genetic material that's making its way into some of the existing cells there. the improvement in the visual acuity is interesting there. So, but yeah, we're in Toronto, so I just wanted to shout out those two particular researchers, but back to you now today. This is repeater station kilo, kilo seven. And thanks so much for coming in with that. And yeah, they're doing research in Toronto with this as well. And to your point too about integrating genetically into the cells, or is it just the stem cells themselves, that are taking over and taking up the functionality of the damaged cell? So that's the question. However, from the reports I was able to read here, the research so far in what they're doing, even some of the human studies they've been doing so far, seem to be very, very positive. And if the stem cell, if the stem cell injected amounts, which were about 50,000 in the first group of people, have proven successful, which they have, and they're now looking at some of these other stem cell amounts that have been injected as well, and they're just watching those over time just to see how the patients are reacting to those. And from that, I think that will be the proving ground as to whether they ramp up the clinical studies on humans to see where they're gonna go forward with this research. But there's lots of research out there, very promising research now that's being formed in ophthalmology for patients with a whole host of various conditions, even glaucoma. There's even some research going into glaucoma now. even cataracts, cataracts that at one point in time, they still are, need to be surgically removed. But there's also now some very, very promising research about drops that they're now looking at as a means to help eliminate cataracts. And I think some of the studies that were done showed that, I think that 40% of the people that were in these trials that were using these drops showed the significant cataract improvement in their eyes. improvement in their eyes. So lots and lots of research, very promising research in these fields.