The cornea is the transparent frontmost layer of the eye that both protects it and helps us see clearly by focusing light on the retina. When people’s corneas are scarred by serious injury or ...

Stem cells from the patient's healthy eye transplanted into the injured eye successfully repairing previously "irreversible" ...

The experimental therapy — called "cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation" (CALEC) — works by taking stem cells from a patient's healthy eye, growing them into sheets of ...

A new stem cell therapy has repaired blinding damage to the cornea in 93% of patients in an early clinical trial. The cornea is the clear dome that covers the front of the eye and helps to focus light ...

Protein therapies for the eye must be dosed as frequent injections. Gene therapy offers one-time treatment, but must also be administered by injection. Neurotech Pharmaceuticals’ gene therapy ...