The jelly contains cells believed to repair damage from infections or injury to the eye. A clinical trial is examining whether the drops can heal chronic keratitis, or inflammation of the cornea.
Early in the pandemic, when people with COVID-19 began reporting that they lost their sense of smell, Zara Patel, MD, figured as much. A professor of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine, Patel has, for years, studied loss of smell as a symptom of viral infections.