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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

However, the human eye is a relatively simple optical device with only two elements: the cornea and the crystalline lens. Until recently, we did not have a complete understanding of its optical ...

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

CALEC trial principal investigator Ula Jurkunas, MD, associate director of the Cornea Service ... is the first human study of a stem cell therapy to be funded by the National Eye Institute ...

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 ...