Vision loss is a serious and common symptom of corneal injuries, with more than 1.5 million cases of corneal blindness reported every year. Corneal injuries typically result from a trauma or an ...

A new cornea may be the only way to prevent a patient going blind -- but there is a shortage of donated corneas and the queue for transplantation is long. Scientists have for the first time ...

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a groundbreaking treatment option for corneal injuries, offering hope to individuals suffering from severe damage to the cornea. Cornea is the transparent, dome-shaped ...

Constant shortages of donated corneas have led researchers in Sweden and Spain to cue in on cultivating "epithelial cells" that keeps the cornea in its transparent form. While Swedish scientists have ...

Each year in the US, over 40,000 people receive transplants of the cornea—the clear front part of the eye that light goes through first. Still more patients with damaged corneas might receive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NovaBay Pharmaceuticals announced the launch of a prescription optic allograft for protecting the ocular surface ...

A patient presents to our resident ophthalmology clinic with a 1-day history of a nail piercing his eye while doing construction work. Fortunately, the trauma is not high speed and the damage is ...

Australian researchers have developed a method for repairing damaged corneas using stem cells grown on a soft contact lens. Nick Di Girolamo's breakthrough, conducted by surgeon Stephanie Watson, ...

An injectable biomaterial activated by pulses of low-energy blue light could enable on-the-spot repair to corneas, claims a team from University of Ottawa and their research partners. The researchers’ ...

A Scottish grandmother with corneal blindness might be able to see again after receiving an innovative new stem cell replacement treatment You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

Stromal (mesenchymal) stem cells from patients' own eyes may replace corneal transplants, suggests a study published in the December 10 issue of Science Translational Medicine. Sayan Basu, MD, from L.

The fate of newly synthesized lymphatic vessels induced by inflammation is poorly understood. To address this question, we designed experiments to determine the morphologic, phenotypic, and functional ...