Artificial Corneas

Posted on October 4, 2007 at 7:20 am (PST)

Europe’s CORNEA project has developed an artificial cornea at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Regensburg have created a device that is "based on a commercially available polymer which absorbs no water and allows no cells to grow on it."

When implanted, it will connect "with the natural part of the cornea, while the center remains free of cells and therefore clear."

Testing on rabbits has been successful so far.