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Eye Transplant Enables Blind Boy to See

Posted by timothy on from the wondrous-times dept.

Chris Gondek points to this story carried by the Sydney Morning Herald, excerpting: "A one-year-old Pakistani boy saw the world for the first time yesterday through an eye donated by an Indian. Mohammed Ahmed gained partial vision after a difficult operation at the Agarwal Eye Institute in the southern city of Madras. Doctors said Ahmed, who was born blind, would get near-normal sight by the time he heads back to Karachi next week."

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  1. The man with the transplanted brain by acz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I saw a documentary from 1971 which is even scarier then all this eye transplant stuff.

  2. Re:How long... by nightgrave · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes but it might be a little hard to aquire one of the eyes that would make it through the security system.

  3. Stem cells by Cholerae · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For a whole eye to be transplanted successfully, wouldn't there need to be a serious advance in stem cell research in order to regenerate the severed ocular nerve? Yet another reason why those ethics lobbyists and the Bush administration should just pack their bags and allow scientists to continue research in that particular area. Maybe that way a slashdot article with the same title would be accurate within a few years ;)

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  4. Yeah worked really well in the rest of the world by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Afghanistan got a lot of its aid from japan so they were so gratefull they blew up statues important to japan's religion. Afghanistan was helped by the US in the war against the USSR so they fly planes into US buildings. There are many more examples, immigrants from the arab world into the western world come to mind.

    The way to peace is not to make one country depend on another. It only works if both need each other to be at peace. Even just needing each other is not enough, one of them might decide they need the other really badly and invade.

    The best way for peace is if two countries just ignore each other. This kind of "poor backward pakistan" needs "powerfull smart india" is not going to do any good. The indians might get the smugness of americans and the pakistanies the resentment of the arab nations. We all know how well they get along.

    For another example, currently the US is extremely dependant on russia for its space program. It was only thanks to russian hardware and knowledge that americans managed to get some duration in space (mir) and the current space station needs russian rockets a lot more then the space shuttle. Yet if you watch american media you would hardly be able to tell this.

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  5. Re:Errr... by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You two remind me of Saddam and a judge.