REDDSTAR Gains Worldwide Coverage

Below is a selection of media coverage for the REDDSTAR project over the past several weeks.  Information about the Project has been reported by media outlets in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America.

UTV Coverage: Sight saving study at Queen’s

The sight of diabetes sufferers could be saved by scientists at Queen’s University Belfast, who are developing a study using adult stem cells.

Published 15th February, 2013. Link to article here.

 

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We could help blind diabetics to see again, say scientists         14/02/2013                      Irish Daily Mail

We could help blind diabetics to see again, say scientists By Petrina Vousden Health Editor SCIENTISTS here are developing a radical treatment to help blind diabetics get their vision back. If successful, the experts based in Galway and Belfast – will be able to reverse blindness in those with severe sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy, which affects 18,000 people in Ireland. Professor Alan Stitt of Queen’s University, Belfast, said the study involves investigating whether certain stem cells can repair blood vessels In the retina that have been damaged as a result of diabetes

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Belfast research gives hope to diabetics at risk of blindness   14/02/2013                      Belfast Telegraph

Queen’s University Belfast are hoping to develop a novel approach that could save the sight of millions of diabetes sufferers around the world. Work has already begun to try and come up with a technique to grow blood vessels in an aim to restore sight to people affected by the devastating disease.

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