New pig-skin corneal implant restores vision to the blind

New pig-skin corneal implant restores vision to the blind

Losing your eyesight to corneal disease can feel like an irreversible sentence, but scientists and entrepreneurs may have found a way to change that. A new implant, created from purified collagen protein derived from pig skin, has restored vision in people who were once blind. The work, published in Nature Biotechnology and led by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden together with the company LinkoCare Life Sciences AB, could transform …