{"id":143960,"date":"2022-08-14T19:09:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-develop-bioengineered-cornea-that-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:09:56","slug":"researchers-develop-bioengineered-cornea-that-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-develop-bioengineered-cornea-that-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop bioengineered cornea that can restore sight to the blind and visually impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-bioengineered-cornea-that-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thor Balkhed\/Link\u00f6ping University.<\/p>\n<p>Made of collagen protein from pig\u2019s skin, the implant resembles the human cornea and is more than a pipe dream for an estimated number of 12.7 million people around the world who are blind due to their diseased corneas. The implant is a promising alternative to the transplantation of donated human corneas, which are scarce in under-developed and developing countries, where the need for them is greatest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thor Balkhed\/Link\u00f6ping University. Made of collagen protein from pig\u2019s skin, the implant resembles the human cornea and is more than a pipe dream for an estimated number of 12.7 million people around the world who are blind due to their diseased corneas. The implant is a promising alternative to the transplantation of donated human corneas, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}