Fish eyes grown in a petri dish from embryonic stem cells

I’m sure you’ve seen a large volume of research involving cross linking and such related to keratoconus. It’s my hope that in the future we find patients like yourself well before they have progressed to later stages and have therapies affordable enough to prevent further progression.

Edit: I forgot to mention but newer techniques for corneal transplant are within reach, and current techniques in the right hands are very successful at giving usable vision.

Best of luck!

This is not at all about opthamologists.

Ability to grow any organ from stem cells, let alone as complex as an eye, is breathtaking development that up until now was basically Sci-Fi.

I don't have a lot of knowledge in the field, but I believe that once we learn how to grow one organ there isn't a lot than more hard work to learn how to grow other organs.

BTW, also have keratoconus, if you haven't had crosslinking done yet I recommend it. It's FDA approved now (I had it before it was, which is why I mention it) and seems to be more widespread these days but I've met others who have keratoconus who are unaware of the procedures available. I haven't had degradation since the procedure nearly a decade ago.

I’d imagine the limiting factor in all of these is still functionality of these organs. We can reorganize them to look somewhat like the actual organ (like in the linked article), but whether or not the organ functions the same is still under much investigation.

Cutting edge work in bioelectrical fields (see Michael Levin's lab) looks quite promising, although quite a long way off in terms of human applications. They can do all sorts of seemingly miraculous things in planaria.

“If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes”