In 2015, researchers accomplished a historical very first by offering a client with the first-ever corneal implant made entirely of human cells grown in the laboratory.

Corneal transplants are utilized to deal with serious corneal scarring and swelling, eye injuries and issues from eye surgical treatments. They change the clear dome at the front of the eye, and normally, the tissues for the treatment are gathered from organ donors after death. In this case, one donor’s corneal tissue was utilized to develop hundreds of implants through advanced lab culture strategies and 3D bioprinting.

Neelanjana Rai is an independent reporter covering the crossways of science, health, environment and ecological justice. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and was previously an airplane upkeep engineer and teacher. Her work has actually appeared in The Hindu, Mongabay, New Internationalist, Earth Island Journal, GenderIT, and Crushing Colonialism.