Scientists have found a way to create eye tissue using stem cells and 3D printing, in new research that could revolutionize the treatment of a range of eye diseases! According to the news of the British Daily Mail newspaper; A team of researchers from the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, “printed” a combination of cells that make up the outer blood-retina barrier, namely eye tissue that helps the retina’s light-sensitive photoreceptors.
MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE TREATMENT OF SOME DISEASES SUCH AS “AGE-RELATED MACULA DEGENERATION”
Its techniques are said to contribute to the study of diseases such as “age-related macular degeneration” (AMD) and to a better understanding of how to treat or cure these diseases, by providing theoretically unlimited tissue resources.
According to Kapil Bharti, who states that they know that AMD begins at the outer blood-retina barrier, the mechanisms of onset and progression of AMD to dry and wet stages are not fully understood due to the lack of physiologically relevant human models.
The scientists published the results of their work in Nature Methods, a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal.