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Full coverage· Health· Updated

Israeli Company Successfully Implants 3D-Printed Cornea Restoring Patient's Sight

An Israeli company, Precise Bio, has successfully implanted a 3D-printed cornea made from human cells into five patients at Rambam Health Care Campus, with the first patient regaining sight. The technology aims to alleviate the global shortage of donor corneas, with one donor potentially providing hundreds of implants.

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What happened

  1. 01Precise Bio implanted a 3D-printed cornea from human cells into five patients at Rambam.
  2. 02The first patient treated with the bio-printed cornea regained their sight.
  3. 03The technology could help solve the worldwide shortage of corneas for transplantation.
  4. 04One donor can now yield hundreds of corneal implants instead of just one.
  5. 05The company aims to print other human tissues and eventually organs in the future.

The company anticipates future applications in printing other human tissues and organs.

Translated and summarized by baba from i24NEWS, the latest report. Read i24NEWS’s original

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