Artificial Cornea Could Bright The Light For Blind

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have invented an artificial cornea that may well be the key to restoring sight for our people with damaged corneas. The artificial cornea should implant into natural cornea with help of special protein which applies to the edge of the cornea where the cells of natural cornea latch onto. In this way, the cornea implant can firmly connect with the natural part of the cornea, while the center remains free of cells and therefore clear.

What is special about this protein is that it can survive the later thermal sterilization of the artificial cornea without being damaged, as it does not have the three-dimensional structure typical of large proteins.