In the eye of the Caribbean storm: one year on from Irma and Maria

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In the eye of the Caribbean storm: one year on from Irma and Maria

Primrose Thomas.  UNDP/Michael Atwood  In September 2017, Primrose Thomas was at her home on Barbuda, when disaster struck: two Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, swept over the islands of the eastern Caribbean, wreaking chaos and destruction.  “The first time I came back, I didn’t know where to go. I couldn’t recognize anywhere. I had to […]

Curve-eye-ture: How to grow artificial corneas

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Curve-eye-ture: How to grow artificial corneas

Scientists at Newcastle University, UK, and the University of California have developed a new method to grow curved human corneas improving the quality and transparency – solely by controlling the behaviour of cells in a dish. The research publishing today in Advanced Biosystems has revealed that corneal cells isolated from human donors and grown on […]