In a pioneering study, stem-cell-derived corneal implants improve sight for patients with severe vision impairment, offering a potential breakthrough for treating limbal stem cell deficiency.

Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a groundbreaking experimental stem cell treatment, a new study shows. The cornea -- the clear outermost layer of the eye -- can become ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested a groundbreaking, experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and ...

CALEC could become one of the first major examples of stem cell therapy's potential to repair once-unfixable injuries. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists at Mass Eye and Ear are winners of the 2025 ...

An experimental stem cell therapy can successfully treat blinding cornea damage The therapy kick-starts the eye’s ability to maintain its smooth surface Cells are taken from a person’s healthy eye, ...

Researchers estimate that more than 10 million people worldwide live with corneal blindness caused by disease or injury to the eye’s cornea. Unilateral limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) is a type of ...

CALEC trial principal investigator Ula Jurkunas, MD, associate director of the Cornea Service at Mass Eye and Ear and professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, in her lab at Mass Eye and ...

Transplanted autologous corneal stem cells successfully repaired corneal injuries in patients. Over 90% of patients achieved complete or partial success. The procedure proved safe with no serious ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested a groundbreaking, experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and ...

There is a new treatment for damaged corneas called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC. File Photo by skeeze/Pixabay Sight-robbing injuries to the cornea can be repaired using a ...