Scientists ‘3D print’ eye tissue to help medical research

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Scientists have ‘printed’ eye tissue to help find ways to stop people going blind in new breakthrough research.

The new study used patient stem cells and ‘3D bioprinting’ techniques to make new eye tissue that could then be used in research.

It allowed scientists to print out a set of cells that together make up the blood-retina barrier, which itself is eye tissue that helps the light-sensing receptors.