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Dana-Farber collaborates with Mass. Eye and Ear to rebuild damaged corneas using patients’ own stem cells for first – Mirage News

Early results demonstrate initial feasibility of a procedure that might help thousands with corneal blindness who cannot receive corneal transplants due…

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Early results demonstrate initial feasibility of a procedure that might help thousands with corneal blindness who cannot receive corneal transplants due to damage, such as chemical burns
Surgeons at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have replaced the ocular surface of four patients who each experienced chemical burns to one eye by using their own stem cells taken from the other healthy eye, in a technique known as “cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation” (CALEC). The CALEC techniq…

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