Hey everyone, welcome to today's show. I want to talk about some exciting research in regenerative eye care. First, there's stem cell therapy, both using embryonic and adult stem cells, which are introduced into the retina to treat conditions like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. Early studies show promising results. Gene therapy is also being explored, particularly for inherited retinal disorders. A recent study demonstrated positive outcomes. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. If you have any questions, submit them to hello@drsamberne.com or you can now text me! Text ‘Join’ to 1-844-932-1291 to join the community and ask your questions! SUMMARY KEYWORDS retina, podcast, diseases, eye, research, embryonic stem cells, retinal, stimulate, scaffold, sam, promising, live q&a, retinal disease, showing, gene therapy, areas, degenerative conditions, signaling pathways, improve, regenerative therapies 00:06 Hey everybody, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. If you want to get in touch with me with questions, you can email me at hello@drsamberne.com. And you can always text me your questions at 1-844-932-1291. I would like to let you know about my new membership program. This is going to offer members new information on how to improve their vision and wellness. So you will get access to articles, video, blogs, podcasts, and webinars. Also a live q&a with me. And all of this information will empower you to make informed decisions about your vision and your health. So to sign up to go to my website, drsamberne.com. And you can see the details there. All right now on to the show.   01:34 Everybody, welcome to the show today. So I'm gonna do a little different spin, I'm going to talk about some of the latest research on regenerative eye care. So this is a little different than some of the clinical things they talk about. So here we go. So the first form of therapy that's getting a lot of press today is called stem cell research. You've probably heard of it. It's pretty popular in mainstream culture, especially if you have diseases like macular degeneration. Retina is picking pigmentosa or other eye degenerative conditions, that the regular medical care is not really helping you. So there's embryonic stem cells, there's also adult stem cells and these are introduced into areas of the retina where there's a disease process going on, and there's a degeneration. There was an article published this year in PubMed on ocular regenerative therapies. four main areas in the eye were studied optic nerve damage, cornea damage, retinitis pigmentosa and age related macular degeneration, embryonic stem cells were introduced into these areas of the eye. early phase clinical studies show promising results with this stem cell therapy. The second form of research that's going on is looking at gene therapy, especially for inherited retinal disorders, better known as IRDs for the years in the pediatrics world, I've seen a number of IR DS and this gene therapy is also showing promising possibility possibilities. There was a study that was published recently through PubMed, again, showing promising results. Okay, this third type of research may not be on your radar. I've been looking at it and it's called nanofiber scaffold, tissue engineered retinal pigment epithelium, so better known as RPE. In this layer of the retina, no fiber scaffolding is used to help regenerate certain retina deterioration diseases, and the results are early, but they're showing some possibilities of tissue regrowth in the retina. And the last form of research that I'm going to talk about today is something called optogenetics. This is a field that combines genetics, with optics, stimulating neuron growth through light sensitivity, right? Researchers are using light to stimulate proteins in the retina, which improve the visual signaling pathways in the retina,