{"id":153679,"date":"2025-12-15T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153679"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:07:11","slug":"first-human-cornea-transplant-using-3d-printed-lab-grown-tissue-restores-sight-in-a-game-changer-for-millions-who-are-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/15\/first-human-cornea-transplant-using-3d-printed-lab-grown-tissue-restores-sight-in-a-game-changer-for-millions-who-are-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Tissue Restores Sight in a \u2018Game Changer\u2019 for Millions Who are Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>goodnewsnetwork<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The first successful human implant of a 3D-printed cornea made from human eye cells cultured in a laboratory has restored a patient\u2019s sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The North Carolina-based company that developed the cornea described the procedure as a \u2018world first\u2019\u2014and a major milestone toward its goal of alleviating the lack of available donor tissue and long wait-times for people seeking transplants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Precise Bio, its robotic bio-fabrication approach could potentially turn a single donated cornea into hundreds of lab-grown grafts, at a time when there\u2019s currently only one available for an estimated 70 patients who need one to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This achievement marks a turning point for regenerative ophthalmology\u2014a moment of real hope for millions living with corneal blindness,\u201d Aryeh Batt, Precise Bio\u2019s co-founder and CEO,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiercebiotech.com\/medtech\/precise-bio-completes-first-human-cornea-transplant-using-3d-printed-lab-grown-tissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/first-human-cornea-transplant-using-3d-printed-lab-grown-tissue-restores-sight-in-a-game-changer-for-millions-who-are-blind\/\">First Human Cornea Transplant Using 3D Printed, Lab-Grown Tissue Restores Sight in a \u2018Game Changer\u2019 for Millions Who are Blind<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>goodnewsnetwork The first successful human implant of a 3D-printed cornea made from human eye cells cultured in a laboratory has restored a patient\u2019s sight. The North Carolina-based company that developed the cornea described the procedure as a \u2018world first\u2019\u2014and a major milestone toward its goal of alleviating the lack of available donor tissue and long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153680,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153679\/revisions\/153680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}