Vietnamese female scientists succeed in low-cost groundbreaking eye research

Fruitful low-cost, pioneering research conducted by a group of female scientists in Hanoi earned the team a scientific research award on Saturday and promises an effective new treatment for people with eye defects or damage.

Female scientists at Hanoi Medical University’s Embryology Faculty and their counterparts at the National Institute of Ophthalmology’s Cornea Faculty have successfully cultured stem cells of the peripheral areas of corneas and of epithelium in the mucous membrane, which will be used as transplants for patients with damage to the eyeball surface.

The approach, which is the first to have been attempted in the country, was conducted at a cost of VND890 million (US$41,476), much cheaper than normal.

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