A cornea implant made out of collagen gathered from pig skin has restored the vision of 20 volunteers in a landmark pilot study. Pending further testing, the novel bioengineered implant is hoped to ...

Doctors in China were able to save a teen’s vision by using part of a pig’s eye in a rare transplant. The 14-year-old patient, who was not identified, had injured his right eye with a firecracker, ...

For the estimated 12.7 million people around the world who are blind due to corneal stromal disease, a transplanted cornea from a human donor is the only way of regaining vision. But just one in 70 ...

Farmyard pigs could be the key to restoring sight in people who have lost their vision due to a damaged cornea, a new study reports. Collagen drawn from pig's skin is being used to create an ...

Scientists say they’ve restored the vision of 20 people who were significantly visually impaired by using a synthetic cornea implant made from pig skin. Published in Nature Biotechnology, a new paper ...

Inside the human eye, the retina is made up of several types of cells, including the light-sensing photoreceptors that initiate the cascade of events that lead to vision. Damage to the photoreceptors, ...