Stem cells from one eye show promise in healing injuries in the other.
The AP reports "the experimental technique involves taking a small biopsy of stem cells from the healthy eye, then expanding and growing them on a graft in a lab."
I've been dealing with vitreous detachment (both eyes) and copious amounts of eye floaters for 2 months. Imagine shaking a snow globe with long stringy blobs and black dots. That's me right now every time I move my eyes. But I refuse to be "crabby". I've experienced miracle healings before by staying positive!
This male #cormorant was decked out in all of his most beautiful colors of the season. Busy guy was exhausted, sleeping on the rail of a boardwalk over the wetlands in Florida. So tired he could barely open his eyes as I walked by just a couple feet away. But, those eyes, gorgeous!
Ancient Trilobites Had Crystal Eyes, And They're Still a Mystery (www.sciencealert.com)
Nature has tried some pretty wild approaches to life's problems over the eons, and that's true for vision.
OC The Last Portrait of my Father