In a pioneering study, stem-cell-derived corneal implants improve sight for patients with severe vision impairment, offering a potential breakthrough for treating limbal stem cell deficiency.

An experimental stem cell therapy could help reverse corneal damage in people with a vision-threatening eye condition. Image credit: daliloveart/Getty Images. The cornea is the outermost clear layer ...

Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a groundbreaking experimental stem cell treatment, a new study shows. The cornea -- the clear outermost layer of the eye -- can become ...

CALEC could become one of the first major examples of stem cell therapy's potential to repair once-unfixable injuries. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists at Mass Eye and Ear are winners of the 2025 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A radical stem cell transplant has significantly improved the blurry vision of three people with severe damage to their cornea. The clinical trial, which took place in Japan, is the first of its kind ...

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 ...

BANGKOK, July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Veterinary Science and the Faculty of Engineering have worked together to research and develop a three-dimensional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a new treatment for damaged corneas called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC. File Photo by ...