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Science 10 December 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5447, pp. 2051 - 2053
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5447.2051b
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TISSUE ENGINEERING:
Growing Human Corneas in the Lab

Dan Ferber

On page 2169, a team of cell biologists report that they have used lines of cultured human cornea cells to fashion the first working equivalent of a human cornea. Although the engineered cornea is far from ready for use in human transplants, it should come in handy for research, experts say. And for toxicologists, the artificial tissue is a sight for sore eyes, potentially offering a new way to conduct safety tests and thus reduce the use of animals.

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