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Perhaps the most exciting new platform for translating advances in the basic sciences to therapeutics for eye disease is in nanotechnology. Taking advantage of properties specific to particles on the nanometer scale, scientists are incorporating nanotechnology into new approaches for drug delivery, gene therapy and cell and tissue engineering. Applications for cornea, uveitis, glaucoma and retinal repair are fast approaching clinical use.
Dr. J.L. Goldberg, Department of Opthalmology and Neurosciences, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1638 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL 33136, USA. jgoldberg@med.miami.edu