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A product will soon be able to mass-produce natural corneas for transplantation into blind people.
Professor Gerard Sutton is co-founder of Bienco which has developed the product, and hopes to cure blindness in millions of people worldwide using a 3D printer.
“At present, there is only one donor cornea available globally to treat every 70 people requiring a corneal transplant,” said Professor Damien Harkin who is a part of Bienco’s staff based at the Queensland University of Technology. “Through laboratory cultivation we estimate that a single donor cornea could provide treatment for 30 people.”