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> Does anyone know why it is so hard to develop such a lens ? As far as medical breakthroughs it seems like low hanging fruit ... Not in medicine or medical re
by all2 7y ago
> Does anyone know why it is so hard to develop such a lens ? As far as medical breakthroughs it seems like low hanging fruit ...
Not in medicine or medical research, so great grains of salt required.
1) immune rejection
2) non-degradable
3) same modulus of elasticity as a biological lens (and maintains elasticity)
4) (relatively) cheap source materials
5) (relatively) cheap manufacture
6) survive all testing; up to FDA approval
Can anyone in medicine comment on this?
- beautifulfreak 7y agoThere's a relevant article on the HN front page now. https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-gore-artificial-cornea/ https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-gore-artificial-corn...
- fhars 7y agoNo, that‘s about cornea replacements and is irrelevant for the current discussion.