EYE CATARACT LENS PLASTIC GERMANY – EU RESEARCH
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is developing a plastic film surgeons can insert in eyes to replace natural lenses clouded by cataracts. The MIRO programme has used a Euro 1.18 million EU grant to create a film thin and malleable enough to roll, enabling new microsurgery techniques involving incisions of 1.5mm. The plastic lens can then be unrolled and give patients good sight, healing extremely quickly. Participating researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute say the key is increasing the lenses' refraction index: the greater it is, ...
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