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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. Prior Art? by qualico · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The link is in Delhi so it probably won't take too much slashing.

    Regardless, the story does certainly make you wonder what's up for the future. Misleading or not.

    Maybe they are just trying to establish prior art for some patent?

  2. Amazing by nightgrave · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Amazing that it's possible to do this... I wonder what'll be next.

  3. This interests me greatly.... by Thaidog · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...since I suffer from macular degeneration... As many of you know there is no way to transplant the retina of the eye... but it sounds as if they have successfully transplanted a whole... eye... here?


    (Sorry I did not get to read the whole thing bc I wanted to get this post in quickly... back to reading)

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