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Scientists have developed a new stem cell based technique called Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplant (SLET) to treat damaged eyes. Scientists focused on treating blindness caused by burns using limbal stem cells harvested from the undamaged eye of the same patients. Thus, they had initiated research in the year 2001 with direct transplant method called Conjunctival Limbal Auto Grafting (CLAU) and later turned attention to method called ...