A study conducted by Canadian and Swedish researchers appearing in the latest edition of the ‘Science Translational Medicine journal’ proffers hope to scores of individuals losing their eyesight yearly due to global deficit of corneas being donated. May Griffith from the Ottawa Hospital Research Inst. who also helmed the small-scaled human trial stated that their work was a pioneering one which has ably shown that synthetically manufactured corneas are capable of integrating with the human eyes and stimulating regeneration. Griffith is optimistic that with additional studies, this strategy could aid in restoring vision among scores of individuals awaiting a human corneal donation for transplant. The cornea is a small piece of translucent, sheath-similar tissue casing the eye surface. It  [...] 

A reformative therapy which employs stem cells obtained from a person’s own eyes could offer another chance for several unsighted people to see again. Study scientists from Italy have cited that the stem cell treatment led to successfully transplanting cornea among 3/4ths of blind patients in a single or both the eyes damaged due to chemical-induced or heat/fire burns. Study investigator, Graziella Pellegrini, PhD along with associates conducted a study involving 112 corneal damage cases who underwent stem cell treatment in-between 1998-2006. Pellegrini from the Univ. of Moderna’s Center for Regenerative Medicine stated that partial vision restoration was possible among individuals with no significant harm to other areas of the affected eye. She also mentioned that an average 3 year follow-up  [...]