Also, it was shown recently that in the rabbit cornea the epithelium is the source of an active sodium transport system, and the endothelium shows only a passive behaviour in relation to the ...

In these instances, the cornea is permanently damaged, resulting in blindness in the affected eye ... In this procedure — known as "cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation" — ...

The study was led by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers and surgeons. The researchers reported ...

Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for ...

The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. It's outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem cells called limbal epithelial cells, which maintain the eye's smooth ...

With the aid of topical proparacaine (0.5%), topically instilled riboflavin can penetrate the cornea without removal of the epithelium ('Epi-on' procedure). UVA light is then focused on the cornea ...

Patients with injuries that were previously considered untreatable have shown improvements in vision following stem cell ...