One has age-related macular degeneration, the main cause of blindness in rich countries.

一位是老年性斑变性病患者，这是发达国家盲人病患常见的致盲原因。

The other suffers from Stargardt's macular dystrophy, its main cause in children.

另一位是隐性斑营养不良症患者，这是儿童致盲的主要原因。

My data indicates that I've got about average risk for developing macular degeneration, a kind of blindness.

我的数据表明我已经达到平均风险系数对于斑病变，一种明病。

An American firm called Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) is using them to treat macular degeneration, a cause of blindness.

美国先进细胞技术公司（Advanced Cell Technology，简称ACT）多能细胞治疗可能致盲的斑变性。

Soon, the country's health ministry is expected to approve the first clinical trial of iPS cells, also for macular degeneration.

该国卫生部应该不久便批准iPS细胞的第一例临床试验，同样也是治疗斑变性。

Although there is a partial loss of vision, macular function is spared, meaning that central vision is still sharp and detailed.

虽然视野部分缺，斑功能仍得以保留，即中心视力仍然完好。

OK? That's why if you have loss of foveal vision and macular degeneration, it's really awful.

好吗？所以如果你去了中央凹视力和斑变性，那真的很糟糕。

From combating high cholesterol to treating age-related macular degeneration, the list of potential treatments is expanding rapidly.

从对抗高胆固醇到治疗与年龄相关的斑变性，潜在的治疗方法在迅速扩大。

The longer those eye structures are stretched the higher the risk of disorders like myopic macular degeneration, retinal detachment… glaucoma and cataracts.

眼睛结构拉伸的时间越长，患近视斑变性、视网膜脱离、青光眼和白内障等疾病的风险就越高。

In digital health, the show will include products for people with visual impairments such as age-related macular degeneration, also known as AMD.

在数字健康方面，展将展示视觉障碍相关的产品，如老年性斑变性，即AMD。

They looked 2,400 people for 15 years and found that aspirin doubled your risk of macular degeneration which, as you said, causes blindness.

他们对 2400 人进行了 15 年的观察，发现阿司匹林使视网膜斑部变性的风险增加了一倍，如你所说，视网膜斑部变性导致明。

Well, this is exactly what happens in age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. This disease is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world.

好吧，这是与年龄相关的斑变性或 AMD 中发生的情况。这种疾病是发达国家明的主要原因。

Traditionally medicine for conditions like glaucoma or diabetic macular odema is injected into the eye or dropped onto the surface and left to diffuse slowly throughout.

传统上，于治疗青光眼或糖尿病性斑水肿等疾病的药物被注入眼内或滴在眼球表面，然后缓慢扩散。

This paper showed that it is possible to use AI to detect diabetic retinopathy and macular oedema, two causes of blindness, in pictures of the retina.

文章表明，AI可来检测视网膜照片中糖尿病性视网膜病变和斑水肿这两种致盲病因的发病迹象。

That patent that they finally got from the 1970s has led to all kinds of products, including ones that treat schizophrenia, heart disease, and macular degeneration, which causes blindness.

他们最终从20世纪70年代获得的这一专利，催生出了各种各样的产品，包括治疗精神分裂症、心脏病和导致明的斑变性的产品。

Cells derived from a donated early embryo were implanted into the retainer of the 60 year-old woman with age related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the UK.

医生将胚胎干细胞移植到了一名患有老年斑变性的60岁女性患者体内，在英国，该疾病也是导致明最为常见的病因。

We have an incredibly complex disease known as age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. A disease that affects the central vision with the most common form having no known cure or treatment.

我们有一种极其复杂的疾病，称为年龄相关性斑变性或 AMD。一种影响中心视力的最常见形式的疾病，目前尚无已知的治愈方法。

People can also have partial vision loss, where they experience things such as cloudy or fuzzy images from conditions like cataracts, or lose central vision, but maintain a normal peripheral vision like with macular degeneration.

人们也可能有部分视力丧， 在这种情况下，他们经历诸如白内障等疾病导致的混浊或模糊图像， 或者去中心视力， 保持常的周边视力，如斑变性。