Crab shells used for new lens
NZPA-Reuter Moscow Soviet scientists have invented a safer form of contact lens, using extracts from crab shells, the newspaper “Sovetskaya Rossiya” said. The newspaper, which called the invention a “world medical first” said the formula made lenses for short-sightedness “absolutely harmless” and removed all risk of allergic reaction.
It did not specify which properties of the crab shells made the lenses safer, but added that scientists had developed aii unprecedented technique for removing the extracts.
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Press, 26 January 1988, Page 35
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