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I know its not good news, but it is worth mentioning that the treatment was for an illness which causes blindness, and was injected into their eyes.

It's not like some unrelated treatment was used and caused them to go blind.

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Skim read it and it looks like it was a terribly incompetent attempt. They used STEM cells derived from a different source as to the original claims source, it was to treat a different condition and to top that off the original claim that they based their therapy on was very dubious...

These women need to sue for a quackery and shut them down.

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