New research shows how the cornea uses stem cells to repair itself. Using mouse models they demonstrate that everyday wear and tear on the cornea is repaired from stem cells residing in the corneal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Global bilateral blindness is estimated by the World Health Organization to be around 45 million people, of ...

The surface of the cornea is covered by a stratified squamous epithelium consisting of three to five nonkeratinized epithelial cell layers. 1, 2, 3 Corneal epithelial cells are formed through mitosis ...

Femtosecond laser entry into the cataract surgery arena had a positive influence on the key steps of cataract surgery, namely anterior capsulotomy, softening of the lens nucleus, lens fragmentation ...

There could be new hope for people facing vision loss due to conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or wet age-related macular degeneration. Scientists from the University of Southampton have ...

Yousef and Finger review results of clinical treatment of 101 squamous conjunctival and corneal tumors in 99 patients with at least 6 months (mean, 22 months) of follow-up. The median age of the group ...

The Institutional Review Board at the University of California, Davis approved a retrospective study protocol to evaluate all patients who had undergone a GDD procedure performed by 2 faculty surgeons ...