LASIK (or Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) is a surgical procedure that uses a laser to reshape the cornea to correct vision. It’s still carving tissue—it’s just carving with a laser,” said Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College who is working on a new way to correct vision without LASIK. The lenses provided a template for the correct cornea shape. The team repeated this setup on 12 separate rabbit eyeballs. In all 10 “myopic” eyeballs, vision was theoretically improved since the eye’s targeted focusing power was fixed.