Progress Towards a Viable Heat Treatment for Dry Macular Degeneration

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/11/progress-towards-a-viable-heat-treatment-for-dry-macular-degeneration/

Macular degeneration is a progressive blindness caused by forms of age-related damage that disable and destroy cells of the retina, such as the accumulation of persistent forms of metabolic waste. The dry variant of macular degeneration, in which there is no great degree of inappropriate blood vessel growth in the retina, has no effective treatment at the present time – and treatments for the wet form typically only slow progression. The materials noted here discuss progress towards a precision heat therapy that uses a laser to induce mild cell stress and consequently greater cell maintenance activities in retinal tissue. If used in the early stages of the condition, animal studies suggest it can significantly postpone the onset of more severe degeneration.

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