A Brighton man has become the first patient at Sussex Eye Hospital to undergo a "pioneering" artificial cornea transplant.

The study was led by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers and surgeons. The researchers reported ...

The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...

“This is a great paper. We usually think of the cornea as an immune-privileged organ, and that the rules of immunology are different there. But now, [the authors] have found that in healthy human ...

The study evaluated 14 patients that were treated with cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) and followed ...

Pioneered by Italian ophthalmologist Benedetto Strampelli in the early 1960s, tooth-in-eye surgery is intended to minimize ...

DOCTORS found parasites burrowed into a woman's cornea after she made a common mistake while swimming in a pool. Maureen Cronin first thought she had an eyelash stuck in her eye, but the pain ...

More information: Sarah N. Pimple et al, Human Breast Milk Enhances Cellular Proliferation in Cornea Wound Healing, Current Eye Research (2024). DOI: 10.1080/02713683.2024.2374836 ...

The CALEC trial is the first human study of a stem cell therapy ... director of the Cornea Service at Mass Eye and Ear, to explore a new approach for regenerating limbal epithelial cells.

A type of eye injury that caused blindness and was previously believed to be irreversible was cured in human trials using ...

The cornea -- the clear outermost layer of the eye -- can become irreversibly damaged if injury or disease destroys its ability to regenerate new cells. In this new process, stem cells taken from a ...