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To: CottonBall

Look what they can do for eyes now!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11567035/Scientists-produce-eye-tissue-using-3D-printing-patient-stem-cells.html


3,865 posted on 12/22/2022 10:26:22 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history.)
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To: MS.BEHAVIN

“By day nine, the scientists seeded retinal pigment epithelial cells on the other side of the scaffold. Just over a month after that, the tissue reached full maturity.”

Pretty amazing. I didn’t realize just how common retinal diseases are now. When I was looking for a cornea specialist, I only found one in each city, typically like Knoxville or Asheville, but there are numerous big medical complex is full of retina specialist. We even have quite a few here


3,950 posted on 12/23/2022 9:29:42 AM PST by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" - Mussolini)
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