An experimental stem cell therapy reversed corneal damage in half of the participants from a recent clinical trial.

The study evaluated 14 patients that were treated with cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (CALEC) and followed ...

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. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

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

A new stem cell therapy is giving hope to patients with serious cornea injuries. This breakthrough treatment could revolutionize eye health.

Eye injuries that damage the cornea are usually irreversible and cause blindness. But a new clinical trial has repaired this ...

A procedure that takes stem cells from a patient's healthy eye and transplants them into the patient's damaged eye safely ...

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

A type of eye injury that caused blindness and was previously believed to be irreversible was cured in human trials using ...

The outer border of the cornea, the limbus, contains many healthy stem cells called limbal epithelial cells, researchers explained in background notes. These cells constantly rebuild the cornea ...