Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A patient who underwent a combined whole eye and face transplant maintained globe and retinal perfusion as well ...

John A. Moran Eye Center scientist Frans Vinberg, PhD, is part of a project bringing together more than 40 scientists, doctors, and industry experts hand-picked from around the country to make ...

Human stem cell transplants successfully repaired macular holes in a monkey model, researchers report October 3 rd in the journal Stem Cell Reports. After transplantation, the macular holes were ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah scientist at the Moran Eye Center is part of a project working to make eye transplants a reality. The project was announced in early December by the U.S. Health Department's ...

Transplants from human stem cells have successfully closed a hole in part of a monkey's retina, hoping for a similar therapy in humans, according to a study by Japanese researchers. According to the ...

In a groundbreaking procedure, a team of surgeons from New York University Langone Health successfully performed the first combined face and eye transplant on a patient with extensive craniofacial ...

Ashutosh Agarwal, associate professor of biomedical engineering, holds the eye-ECMO device that his lab created as part of the whole eye transplant project led by Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. The ...

Age-related macular (AMD) degeneration is a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness in the elderly population. In so-called wet AMD, new, abnormal blood vessels grow in the central part of ...

In a new study, stem cell therapy showed promise at treating small gaps in the macula, the central part of the eye's retina, which can cause distorted or blurred vision. Photo by Adobe Stock/HealthDay ...

For years, UT Southwestern researcher Kevin Park has been working toward what he has described as the “holy grail” of regenerative vision science: a fully functional eye transplant that restores ...

Retinal degeneration is a leading cause of blindness globally and results from irreversible damage to photoreceptors and supporting cells including retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Scientists have ...

Japanese researchers have successfully used a transplant of human stem cells to close a hole in a key part of a monkey's retina. They say the achievement could pave the way for better treatment of ...