(Worthy Insights) – American surgeons have successfully restored eyesight to a handful of people who suffered blinding eye injuries through the use of a new form of stem cell therapy.
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, a specialty hospital located in Boston, have developed cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) and it has became the first stem cell therapy for the eye ever trialed in the United States.
The ground-breaking procedure starts by removing stem cells from a healthy eye with a biopsy. Then they are grown for two to three weeks before being surgically transplanted onto an injured cornea. [ Source (Read More…) ]
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