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

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rideshort
11/09/2023
01:47 PM
#1
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/
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Starks
11/09/2023
01:54 PM
#3
That seems to be more promising than creating a new functional eye from a tooth, which is a thing.
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C_Pain
11/09/2023
01:56 PM
#4
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.
How quaint.
rideshort
11/09/2023
01:56 PM
#5
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.

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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Xenogears15
11/09/2023
01:58 PM
#6
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.

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.
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Cemith
11/09/2023
01:59 PM
#7
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.
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lilORANG
11/09/2023
02:00 PM
#9
Will he achieve the eternal mangekyo sharingan?
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ANort175
11/09/2023
02:01 PM
#10
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.
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BombermanGold
11/09/2023
02:02 PM
#11
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.
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HorsemnBusiness
11/09/2023
02:05 PM
#12
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.
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JuanCarlos1
11/09/2023
02:07 PM
#13
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.
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mystic_belmont
11/09/2023
02:13 PM
#14
Hopefully the stem cells help decrease the chance of rejection.
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Blue_Thunder
11/09/2023
02:17 PM
#15
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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Wedge_Antilles
11/09/2023
02:24 PM
#16
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.

Think I read fairly recently they're starting human trials on a pill to regrow lost teeth.
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NhojAnec
11/10/2023
08:37 AM
#17
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 :)
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MrResetti
11/10/2023
08:37 AM
#18
I heard Ferris Bueller is going to donate his eyes to Stevie Wonder
VeggetaX
11/10/2023
08:38 AM
#19
Now I'll love forever
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Irony
11/10/2023
08:39 AM
#20
I want a cybernetic eye like a Sharingan
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Flauros
11/10/2023
08:50 AM
#21
We need more unrestrained medical testing to make some serious advances in medicine.

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BlueKat
11/10/2023
09:33 AM
#22
Don't get overly optimistic--the implanted eyes show no signs of actually working and likely never will

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Dark_Arbron
11/10/2023
09:56 AM
#23
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.
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DnDer
11/10/2023
11:36 AM
#24
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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Tyranthraxus
11/10/2023
11:43 AM
#25
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.

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.
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Cocytus
11/10/2023
11:52 AM
#26
Cool
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GranTurismo
11/11/2023
12:07 PM
#27
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.
cure aging?
Weezy_Tha_Don
11/11/2023
12:10 PM
#28
lilORANG posted...
Will he achieve the eternal mangekyo sharingan?

lol
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CountCorvinus
11/13/2023
08:38 PM
#30
There was a V/H/S/ segment about this
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rideshort
11/13/2023
08:38 PM
#31
Thanks for bumping this. Here's hoping the optic nerve will send a signal to the rain for proper eyesight.
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Thermador446
11/13/2023
08:43 PM
#32
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?
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St0rmFury
11/14/2023
10:41 PM
#34
I remember this experiment to replace corneas with fish scale.
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pretzelcoatl
11/14/2023
11:02 PM
#35
Finally. The Eye (2008) will be real.
pretzelcoatl
11/14/2023
11:03 PM
#36
Flauros posted...
We need more unrestrained medical testing to make some serious advances in medicine.
Do you volunteer
pretzelcoatl
11/14/2023
11:04 PM
#37
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
St0rmFury
11/15/2023
01:19 AM
#38
pretzelcoatl posted...
Finally. The Eye (2008) will be real.
Isn't that just a cornea transplant?
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Enclave
11/15/2023
01:25 AM
#39
ImAMarvel posted...
and cure aging in my lifetime.

I'm not convinced that's going to be happening within any of our lifetimes.
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NhojAnec
11/15/2023
06:30 AM
#40
ImAMarvel posted...
Really hoping they're going to be able to regrow lost teeth, reverse hearing loss, and cure aging in my lifetime.

We're living in really exciting times in terms of scientific progress.

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.
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