Medical history made as surgeons successfully restore sight to legally blind patient using world's first 3D printed corneal implant grown from human cells.

The first successful human implant of a 3D-printed cornea made from human eye cells cultured in a laboratory has restored a ...

Precise Bio Inc., a Greensboro-based clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, has announced the world’s first transplant of a cell-based, functional, 3D-bioprinted cornea. The procedure took ...

In a major breakthrough in human tissue replication, for the first time ever a 3D-printed cornea has been transplanted onto a legally blind patient's eye, successfully restoring their sight. That's ...

Your cornea is your eye’s clear, protective outer layer, sitting at the front like a car windshield. It acts like a barrier against dirt and germs, and it helps filter out some of the sun's damaging ...

Normally, your cornea — the clear outer lens or "windshield" of your eye — has a dome shape, like a ball. Sometimes, the structure isn’t strong enough to hold its round shape and bulges outward, like ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

More than 12 million people worldwide are blind because of disease or damage to the cornea, the transparent outer layer of the eye. A transplant from a deceased human donor can restore vision, but ...

November marks National Eye Donation Month — a time to recognize the donors whose generosity gives others the gift of sight. One Utahn knows that gift firsthand. What began as an unexpected medical ...

Vision loss is something most people associate with accidents. A sharp object. A chemical splash. A sudden injury. Very few ...