{"id":186470,"date":"2024-03-31T10:32:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-drug-delivering-contact-lens-will-heal-corneal-wounds-faster"},"modified":"2024-03-31T10:32:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:32:46","slug":"this-drug-delivering-contact-lens-will-heal-corneal-wounds-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-drug-delivering-contact-lens-will-heal-corneal-wounds-faster","title":{"rendered":"This drug-delivering contact lens will heal corneal wounds faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-drug-delivering-contact-lens-will-heal-corneal-wounds-faster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventionally, corneal abrasion patients wear a clear, oxygen-permeable bandage contact lens for seven to 10 days but this treatment does not ensure the drug remains in the eye for sustained treatment, according to a statement by the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p>This new <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/contact-lens-battery-charged-by-tears\" rel=\"dofollow\">lens<\/a> material was developed with the ambition to address the limitations of current methods for treating corneal abrasions. The contact lens material is derived from gelatin methacrylate, a collagen by-product. Collagen is a protein naturally found in the eye and is involved in the wound-healing process but it\u2019s too soft and weak to perform as an appropriate contact lens material.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Evelyn Yim, an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, found a way to transform gelatin methacrylate into a biomaterial ten times stronger than collagen, the statement revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventionally, corneal abrasion patients wear a clear, oxygen-permeable bandage contact lens for seven to 10 days but this treatment does not ensure the drug remains in the eye for sustained treatment, according to a statement by the University of Waterloo. This new lens material was developed with the ambition to address the limitations of current [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186470","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}