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  • It looks like there's a new treatment to fix corneal damage and disease

    http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/1...or-transplant/

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    Thanks for this article Phillips55! It sounds very promising and quite far along already in the process. I'm going to foward this to my friend who might need a corneal transplant, but sounds like this can potentially help many eye conditions.

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      A recent technological advance: magnetic nanoparticles. The particles are incredibly small, measuring only 50 nanometers in diameter. By comparison, a human hair is 75,000 nanometers in diameter. The new young cells were magnetized with the nanoparticles, loaded into a syringe and injected into the eye. Then, using an electromagnetic force on a patch held outside of the eye, the team pulled the cells into the middle of the eye, to the back of cornea. Later, the magnetic nanoparticles fell off the cells, exited the eye and were excreted in the patients’ urine.
      Woah, sounds like I'm reading the plot of a science fiction film but this is now reality, amazing stuff!
      Sufferer due to Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.
      Avatar art by corsariomarcio

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