Growing Corneas
September 2, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
Diseases and injury of the cornea are significant causes of blindness and usually treated with transplants from cadavers. But in one of the first examples of growing new tissue from adult human stem cells, researchers at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary have identified an antibody that can attach to limbal stem cells, in the eye’s basal epithelium, for regeneration into sight restoring corneas. MORE
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