The good news and the bad news...
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Your new eye is still alive, but you still can't see...
https://gizmodo.com/world-s-first-whole-eye-transplant-is-success-1851008437
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Stem cells in the hope of making the optic nerve work.
But as the article says, it was done primarily for cosmetic purposes. Nice experiment, but why bother
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*This combination of photos provided by NYU Langone Health in November 2023 shows Aaron James before and after his high-voltage electricity accident and after a facial and eye transplant. The NYU team announced Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, that so far, James is recovering well from the dual transplant in May and the donated eye looks remarkably healthy. *
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Parts of his facial bone structure were 3d-printed in Belgium and sent to the US within 24 hours.
Yesterday we were told his brain did actually react on optic stimuli.@Wim said in The good news and the bad news...:
Yesterday we were told his brain did actually react on optic stimuli.
Impressive. THere's a lot of work being done on neural regeneration. In "Lifespan" David Sinclair talks about optic nerve regeneration (in vitro, of course) by bathing the nerve in various "epigenetic resetters."
However, "reacting to optic stimuli" is a long, long way from functional sight.
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I know someone who is doing work at USC on "coding" the brain so that blind people can "see". From my understand, bypassing the optic nerve and sending an equivalent signal to the appropriate part of the brain to simulate vision.
