Posted on 12/21/22
| News Source: i24
'Here we can transplant tissue — human tissue we grow in our lab — and we can transplant it into a patient's eye and restore eyesight'
Human corneas are being created in an Israeli lab and the critical part of the eye may soon be available for transplant.
"Here we can transplant tissue — human tissue we grow in our lab — and we can transplant it into a patient's eye and restore eyesight," Aryeh Batt, CEO and co-founder of Precise Bio, told i24NEWS.
Batt understands sight — he started his career developing optical sensors for the Israeli military — but now he has a new vision — mass producing parts for eye transplants.
"There are various types of transplant, but there's not enough supply worldwide — for instance corneas — for each person that gets a cornea transplant there are 70 that don't because there's simply not enough tissue," Batt said.
His company is changing that equation — in their lab they grow human tissue — and then print it into impossibly precise shapes to be whatever is needed.