EyeconX Ideas! - Lab Close To Growing Full Corneas http://ideas.eyeconx.net/story.php?title=lab-close-to-growing-full-corneas Auckland University researchers believe they are just five to 10 years from growing entire human corneas in the laboratory to implant into patients' damaged eyes. Professor Charles McGhee, the head of the university's National Eye Centre, performed New Zealand's first laboratory-cultured stem cell operations on patients with damaged corneas in 2010, improving the sight of most of the affected eyes... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:55:20 EST en