From Promise to Practice: Recent Growth in 30 Years of Tissue Engineering Commercialization.

This perspective, marking the 30th anniversary of the Tissue Engineering journal, discusses the exciting trends in the global commercialization of tissue engineering technology. Within a historical context, we present an evolution of challenges and a discussion of the last 5 years of global commercial successes and emerging market trends, highlighting the continued expansion of the field in the northeastern United States. This leads to an overview of the last 5 years' progress in clinical trials for tissue-engineered therapeutics, including an analysis of trends in success and failure.

Photorefractive keratectomy in the cat eye: biological and optical outcomes.

Purpose: To quantify optical and biomechanical properties of the feline cornea before and after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and assess the relative contribution of different biological factors to refractive outcome.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

Methods: Adult cats had 6.