An experimental stem cell therapy can successfully treat blinding cornea damage The therapy kick-starts the eye’s ability to maintain its smooth surface Cells are taken from a person’s healthy eye, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is a new treatment for damaged corneas called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC. File Photo by ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested an experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and followed for 18 ...

For patients with severe corneal injuries, blindness has often been seen as a life sentence. But a new eye stem cell transplant may change that. Scientists at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have ...

Scientists are making progress on curing blindness with experimental stem cell therapies. In experimental trials, doctors can now restore vision by replacing limbal epithelial cells, a category of ...

The cornea—the clear, dome-shaped outer layer of the eye—contains more nerves per surface area than any other tissue in the ...

Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a groundbreaking experimental stem cell treatment, a new study shows. The cornea -- the clear outermost layer of the eye -- can become ...