{"id":30247,"date":"2016-09-16T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/living-eye-implant-uses-lab-grown-cells-to-restore-sight"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:08","slug":"living-eye-implant-uses-lab-grown-cells-to-restore-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/living-eye-implant-uses-lab-grown-cells-to-restore-sight","title":{"rendered":"Living Eye Implant Uses Lab-Grown Cells to Restore Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-eye-implant-uses-lab-grown-cells-to-restore-sight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our eyes are one of our most complex body parts, made up of numerous delicate cell structures that work together seamlessly to allow us to see. Conditions like far-sightedness, glaucoma, and cataracts are widespread, and it\u2019s no wonder given the fragile nature of the eye\u2019s many components.<\/p>\n<p>In the worst-case scenario, optical cells malfunction to the point of blindness. But a group of scientists at the University of Melbourne in Australia recently took a critical step towards alleviating and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/new-hydrogel-film-repairs-corneal-cells\">curing a common vision problem<\/a>. Added to groundbreaking work in other areas, blindness could become an affliction of the past.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/14\/living-eye-implant-uses-lab-grown-cells-to-restore-sight\/\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/14\/living-eye-implant-uses...ore-sight\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our eyes are one of our most complex body parts, made up of numerous delicate cell structures that work together seamlessly to allow us to see. Conditions like far-sightedness, glaucoma, and cataracts are widespread, and it\u2019s no wonder given the fragile nature of the eye\u2019s many components. In the worst-case scenario, optical cells malfunction to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66216,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions\/66216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}