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Study of Corneal Stem Cell Transplant Shows Vision Restored After Injury
Author: Jennie Crabbe
A clinical study of patients with irreversible corneal injury, published March 4 in Nature Communications, showed that transplanted epithelial stem cells from their healthy eyes restored at least partial vision in more than 90 percent of patients. The treatment, called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells, or CALEC, was developed at Mass Eye and Ear. Stem cells are removed from the patient’s healthy eye via biopsy. A two- to three-week process expands the cells into a graft, and then...
