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While persons born blind may have to wait longer for viable treatment options, those with compromised eyesight due to injury or disease have plenty of reasons to be excited about the future. Stem cell research, only one of several -regenerative medicine- options presently gaining seemingly limitless momentum, is opening doors hitherto merely imagined. Ophthalmologists should soon be able to offer...
September 22, 2021
About 15 million people worldwide suffer from complications caused by either disease or trauma to the cornea, the outer surface of the eye. About a third of those people live with total blindness. With the availability of corneas for transplant far from meeting the demand, researchers have turned to various media for prosthetics. Recently, a team at Newcastle University -discovered a way to recreate...
October 18, 2018
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