Corneas made from laboratory-grown human cells may help in the study of eye-wound healing, replace animals in some toxicology tests, and someday serve as replacement corneas for people.

Griffith, M. . . . and M.A. Watsky. 1999. Functional human corneal equivalents constructed from cell lines. Science 286(Dec. 10):2169.

May Griffith
University of Ottawa Eye Institute
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ottawa Hospital–General Campus
Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L6
Canada

Mitchell A. Watsky
University of Tennessee
College of Medicine
Department of Physiology
Memphis, TN 38163

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 24, December 11, 1999, p. 374. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.