Researchers successfully pulled off the first eye stem cell transplants to help heal cornea damage, and the results speak for themselves.

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It turns out the eye was still intact, but the cornea was burned ... kind in the U.S. "The name of it is cultivated autologous limbal epithelial stem cell transplantation," Dr. Ula Jurkunas ...

The treatment, called a cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cell transplantation -- or CALEC -- can help restore surface corneal epithelial cells, which can be destroyed after chemical burns ...

The patent is granted for the advanced cell compositions comprising limbal epithelial and stromal cells for treating and preventing corneal diseases, along with their production methods and ...

The cornea is the the outer layer of the eye ... The trial used a new procedure, called cultivated autologous limbal epithelial cells (or CALEC), which involves doctors taking healthy stem ...