An expanded clinical trial that tested a groundbreaking, experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested an experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and followed for 18 ...

The next frontier of stem cell transplantation might involve the eyes. In research out today, scientists report that an experimental therapy has helped people with otherwise untreatable injuries to ...

Scientists in Japan have, for the first time, treated a damaged cornea using induced pluripotent stem cells. According to the surgeon, the person’s vision has improved since the procedure. The cornea ...

For patients with severe corneal injuries, blindness has often been seen as a life sentence. But a new eye stem cell transplant may change that. Scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have ...

Scientists are making progress on curing blindness with experimental stem cell therapies. In experimental trials, doctors can now restore vision by replacing limbal epithelial cells, a category of ...

A type of eye injury that caused blindness and was previously believed to be irreversible has been cured in human trials using stem cells. The cornea is the the outer layer of the eye that focuses ...

Researchers at Technion have uncovered a surprising natural mechanism through which the body repairs itself: Contrary to what ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Remarkable advances have occurred in corneal surgery in the past 10 years. These advances include simpler ...

CALEC trial principal investigator Ula Jurkunas, MD, associate director of the Cornea Service at Mass Eye and Ear and professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, in her lab at Mass Eye and ...