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 ...

In these instances, the cornea is permanently damaged, resulting in blindness in the affected eye. Patients with this type of eye damage can't be treated with regular corneal transplants because these ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

Sussex Eye Hospital, part of University Hospitals ... corneal transplants for patients who have previously rejected human corneal transplants," he said. "The entire hospital team all played ...