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June 2012: This Month in JoVE
JoVE Journal
Biologia
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JoVE Journal Biologia
June 2012: This Month in JoVE

June 2012: This Month in JoVE

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June 01, 2012

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June 01, 2012

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Back in 1905, in what is now the Czech Republic, Eduard Zirm performed the first corneal transplantation surgery (keratoplasty), which restored vision to a patient blinded by corneal injury. Today, eye banks all over the world prepare, store, and distribute donated corneas to hospitals so that thousands of sight-saving keratoplasties can be performed every year. In June 2012, JoVE has its eye on two research groups, one from Italy and the other from Michigan, who demonstrate two distinct methods for corneal graft preparation prior to transplantation.

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