dry eye

He also suffers from dry eye syndrome and wears sunglasses inside and out because of his sensitivity to light.

“There wasn’t a dry eye and there wasn’t a seat,” says Cramer, whose father was on-site when the accident happened.

Several diseases and disorders affect the conjunctiva, such as dry eye disease, cancer, allergies and infections.

“We can use our model to test drugs for allergies or dry eye disease, for example,” says Bannier-Hélaouët.

Rizzo and Trapelli are also working on using natural snail mucus in unconventional ways—their snail mucus extract has been used to produce eye drops that use snails’ natural lubrication to treat dry eye disease.