{"id":145448,"date":"2022-09-01T23:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bioengineered-cornea-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired"},"modified":"2022-09-01T23:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:23:39","slug":"bioengineered-cornea-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/bioengineered-cornea-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineered Cornea Can Restore Sight to the Blind and Visually Impaired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioengineered-cornea-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Researchers have developed a cornea implant from the collagen protein of pig skin. The implant restored the vision of 20 people with diseased corneas. The new implant could be a viable alternative to human cornea transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Linkoping University.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig\u2019s skin, which resembles the human cornea. In a pilot study, the implant restored vision to 20 people with diseased corneas, most of whom were blind prior to receiving the implant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Researchers have developed a cornea implant from the collagen protein of pig skin. The implant restored the vision of 20 people with diseased corneas. The new implant could be a viable alternative to human cornea transplantation. Source: Linkoping University. Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig\u2019s skin, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145448","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\/145448","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}