PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ECM Therapeutics, a clinical stage regenerative medicine company pioneering the development of Extracellular Matrix-based therapeutics for the treatment of unmet medical ...

For decades, restoring sight after severe eye damage sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now a wave of converging advances, from gene editing and stem cells to microchips and laser-based ...

Optic neuropathies including glaucoma, traumatic injury, ischemic damage, and optic neuritis, are the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide; however, effective treatments for optic nerve ...

Surgeons have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant – although it's far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his ...

Traditional mammalian models, including mice, hinder optic nerve regeneration research due to poor regenerative capacity, embryonic opacity, complex anatomy, and labor-intensive tissue processing. By ...