The cornea is the clear, outermost layer of the eye. Its outer border, the limbus, contains a large volume of healthy stem ...

Transplanted epithelial stem cells from a healthy eye repaired irreversible corneal injury and restored at least partial vision in more than 90% of patients, a preliminary clinical study showed.

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

Whether allogeneic transplants are feasible for patients with bilateral LSCD, caused by injuries or inherited eye diseases, remains unknown but represents the "holy grail" of limbal stem cell ...

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

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a groundbreaking treatment option for corneal injuries, offering hope to individuals ...

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

“Current treatment options for limbal stem cell deficiency caused by cornea injuries have considerable limitations, including injury to the healthy eye from removal of stem cells, or limited ...

the stem cell graft replenishes the limbal stem cells and restores the cornea’s surface. At this point, a patient can undergo a cornea transplant, or in the case of some patients in our study ...

One potential solution is to restore the lost stocks of stem cells in the patient's damaged eye using healthy cells from their other, healthy eye. In this procedure — known as "cultivated autologous ...

The next frontier of stem cell transplantation might involve the ... that it depletes the cornea’s large but limited supply of limbal epithelial cells—the stem cells that replenish the cells ...