Comment by blakesterz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by blakesterz | Hacker News Reader

Wow, I didn't know that eye transplants were so close to being a thing! That's amazing for blind people.

  While it is still unknown whether he will regain sight, since the May 2023 procedure, the transplanted left eye has shown remarkable signs of health, including direct blood flow to the retina—the area at the back of the eye that receives light and sends images to the brain. Although many questions remain in a case with no precedence, this groundbreaking achievement opens new possibilities for future advancements in vision therapies and related medical fields.

Yeah but how do they connect the eye nerves? We've been told over and over that modern surgery doesn't know how to do this.

Would be a nobel prize if this was solved. I assume they transplanted the eye(s) for cosmetical and research purposes.

That's kind of the the feeling that I got from chatting up my opthomologist. She cited the sheer complexity and number of nerve fibers (>1 million) going from an eye to the brain is incredible.

It would be difficult to overstate the wonderous benefit that would come from reliable eye transplants.

The CIA Office of Enhanced Interrogation becomes CIA Office of Enhanced Optometry.

Now that's a euphemism for ya.

You’re thinking of the Canadian eye doctors association, the CIEh.

Brings me one step closer to achieving my dream of becoming Hokage...

I'll see myself out now

Or having a Kiroshi implant.

Are they just waiting for the body to build nerve connections with the eye after the transplant to regain eyesight?

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