Current Events > Man receives the first successful eye transplant surgery! This is now a thing!

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Never in my wildest dreams did I think this would happen in my lifetime I am so excited for this!

Man receives the first eye transplant plus a new face. It's a step toward one day restoring sight

https://wtop.com/national/2023/11/man-receives-the-first-eye-transplant-plus-a-new-face-its-a-step-toward-one-day-restoring-sight/

That seems to be more promising than creating a new functional eye from a tooth, which is a thing.

Interesting. It sounds like it's mostly for cosmetic purposes though, and may never grant any vision so I feel like we're still a ways off. Still cool though.

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It really is isn't it? The one thing I really wanted in this world is to restore vision my right eye. With this breakthrough, it's now a possibility. Honestly I could cry.

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I'm honestly most excited for what the COVID vaccines can potentially do for curing cancer. Individualized cancer treatments sounds like such a gamechanger to me.

I hope they do eventually figure out a way to restore vision.

I have a twin who will definitely be fully blind by about 40 years old. If someone told me that I could give one of my eyes to him and he'd restore his sight, I'd do it.

Will he achieve the eternal mangekyo sharingan?

C_Pain posted...

Interesting. It sounds like it's mostly for cosmetic purposes though, and may never grant any vision so I feel like we're still a ways off. Still cool though.

When they did the story about this on CBS today, they mentioned part of the guy's brain showed activity when they shined a light into the new eye, so while it's not a sure thing, it's possible he might get his vision back in it one day. His doctor seemed cautiously optimistic about it.

More interested when they come up with a treatment to regrow working optical nerves. That'll be the real deal there, especially for glaucoma patients.

Could you imagine if they cured aging and those of us will be already be old by then and were stuck with healthier organs, but old ass skin lol.

This is an amazing achievement, but at the same time makes me think of all these dystopian sci fi movies where body organs are seen as commodities for the rich to live as long as possible. Sure, its mostly donated for now, but how long until a company comes along working as an organ broker between the rich and the needy.

Hopefully the stem cells help decrease the chance of rejection.

rideshort posted...

The one thing I really wanted in this world is to restore vision my right eye.

Same, bro; this is really cool stuff.

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Think I read fairly recently they're starting human trials on a pill to regrow lost teeth.

i hope the eyeball wasnt from a serial killer or something, cause there was a movie where someone gets an eyeball transplant but the eyeball was from a dead serial killer and it made the person wanna kill people.

jk, this is awesome :)

I heard Ferris Bueller is going to donate his eyes to Stevie Wonder

Now I'll love forever

I want a cybernetic eye like a Sharingan

We need more unrestrained medical testing to make some serious advances in medicine.

Don't get overly optimistic--the implanted eyes show no signs of actually working and likely never will

BlueKat posted...

Don't get overly optimistic--the implanted eyes show no signs of actually working and likely never will

The article itself says that. It's just a step, but that's how every journey begins. Also he claims to be gaining some sensation in it, so it'll be interesting to see how it's progressed over the next few months.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

This is an amazing achievement, but at the same time makes me think of all these dystopian sci fi movies where body organs are seen as commodities for the rich to live as long as possible. Sure, its mostly donated for now, but how long until a company comes along working as an organ broker between the rich and the needy.

We've kinda been living it since Steve Jobs got to fly around the country shopping for organs to save him from cancer...

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Dental implants seem to be straight superior to teeth though so unless there's a massive cost difference to make regrowing dentin teeth cheaper than implants I don't think this will be a thing.

Cool

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cure aging?

lilORANG posted...

Will he achieve the eternal mangekyo sharingan?

lol

There was a V/H/S/ segment about this

Thanks for bumping this. Here's hoping the optic nerve will send a signal to the rain for proper eyesight.

I thought that here have been eye transplants for a while.

I know there are significant Monk fans on this board, was the episode about meeting the woman who received his wife's eyes a fluke?

I remember this experiment to replace corneas with fish scale.

Finally. The Eye (2008) will be real.

Flauros posted...

We need more unrestrained medical testing to make some serious advances in medicine.

Do you volunteer

JuanCarlos1 posted...

This is an amazing achievement, but at the same time makes me think of all these dystopian sci fi movies where body organs are seen as commodities for the rich to live as long as possible. Sure, its mostly donated for now, but how long until a company comes along working as an organ broker between the rich and the needy.

There's plenty of studies that organ donations tend to go to richer folks already

pretzelcoatl posted...

Finally. The Eye (2008) will be real.

Isn't that just a cornea transplant?

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I'm not convinced that's going to be happening within any of our lifetimes.

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i guarantee all three of these things will be achieved in the next 10-20 years. well maybe they wont be able to cure aging in the next 10-20 years, but im 100% sure they will be able to slow it down a lot so that when youre 80 youll look and feel 50.