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New Blood Collection Strategies Aim to Expand Supply of Donor Tissue for Cornea Transplants
Researchers at the 2026 EBAA meeting shared a new approach to increasing the supply of donor corneal tissue: improving blood collection practices. Efforts to expand tissue availability have usually...
Expanded Use of Diabetic Donor Corneas May Help Address Tissue Shortages
The growing prevalence of diabetes among cornea donors within the past decade has heightened concerns about the disease’s potential impact on keratoplasty outcomes and transplant success. Concern a...
Cure Blindness Project’s 2025 Holiday Catalog Encourages Shoppers to Give Gift of Sight
Cure Blindness Project on Nov. 18 launched its 2025 Holiday Gift Guide, which the group describes as giving shoppers a thoughtful, sustainable, and hassle-free charity gift option. The catalog offe...
Precise Bio Treats First Patient With 3D Bioprinted Corneal Implant
Precise Bio announced Nov. 19 that the first patient had been treated with PB-001, the company’s 3D bioprinted corneal implant candidate, in a Phase I clinical trial. The legally blind patient was ...
UM Whole Eye Transplant Project Overcomes Two Hurdles
Two critical pieces needed to eventually transplant a whole eye have been created and tested successfully at the University of Miami, the school reported July 24. Seventeen UM faculty members are w...
ACRO Biomedical Gains Regulatory Approval in Taiwan for Corneal Xenograft
Taiwan’s ACRO Biomedical announced April 13 that the country’s Ministry of Health and Welfare had granted regulatory approval to ACRO’s ABCcolla decellularized porcine collagen corneal xenograft. A...
Study of Corneal Stem Cell Transplant Shows Vision Restored After Injury
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 p...
Study of Corneal Stem Cell Transplant Shows Vision Restored After Blinding Eye Injuries
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 p...
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