Show LIVING TISSUE OF EYE GROWN BY SCIENTIST Hope for Cataract Suf Suf- Sufferers Sufferers Seen In New NEW YORK YOnI De Dee Dec 25 Wy 23 By The Tho Associated Pre prea Experiments York university me medical col coi- coi col I lege ge In growing the Irl or lens covering of the th animal B ee eye outside of a living living- animal body offers hope that cataract sometime sometimes compared with cancer in other parts of ot the body may eventually be conquered says a copyrighted story lory tory In the New NewYork II York American today The rc- rc search carch was as started a II year ear ago aRO at atthe atthe I Ithe the Instance of Dr John W V Wheel Wheel- Wheeler Wheelen er en chief of the university's optical surgery department the newspaper declares and Is being carried on onby onby onby by his assistant Dr Daniel Kirby and 1 Mr lr Keith Cameron Este Estey a 0 woman scientist who for tor four tour years was as assistant to Dr Alexis Carrel I at the Rockefeller Institute who has had bad the tho th culture of a heart of a chicken growing for tor U H years LIVE LI TISSUE TAKEN The Tho Th experiments which Dr Wheeler said were still sUII In an ear ear- early early ear early ly state tat has resulted In the th grow grow- growIng grow Ing lug Ing of crystalline lenses of ee eyes In hollow tildes slides slides In an incubator Uve tissue tissue- taken front from the eyo eye of an chicken embryo embro devel devel- developed developed developed only five days was use used as tIle the start for tor the experiment The Tho American says It Is 1 I consid consid- considered considered considered ered probable that the th eye eyo culture will live on Indefinitely If It kept free front Crom all destroying bacteria liol- liol Hollow Hol Hollow low slides bearing th tho tissue cul- cul Continued or on rage Page P so Ten ren lIVING TISSUE OF OE EYE DROWN GRO train from fr rage Page One tures lures are aro placed In an tin Incubator where they are aro kept at blood heat or 1 about OS 98 degrees HIS Ir NOTES The Tho scientists hope hOlle the Amerl- Amerl can Says fays to find some clue to con con- Conditions similar to those of cataract which causes the tho eye efe lens in man manta manto marto to ta become and sightless Dr Whee Wheeler r refuses to discuss the progress of ot the tho experiments In Inthe inthe lithe the absence of ot Dr Kirby who Is Ison ison ion on his way home homo from Crom europe where he compared notes with an eminent Vienna ee eye specialist 00 |