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The post is false as described: KAIST reported mouse retinal therapy, with human trials aimed for 2028, not a printed whole-eye implant in a patient. NYU’s whole-eye transplant used a donor eye and had not restored sight after 1 year. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079071 https://nyulangone.org/news/worlds-first-whole-eye-partial-face-transplant-recipient-achieves-remarkable-recovery-viable-eye-one-year-after-landmark-surgery
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They literally 3D-printed an eyeball. And the blind guy can see again. Not a chip. Not a sensor. A full living human eye — retina, cornea, lens, optic nerve — built layer by layer in a printer. Bioengineers at KAIST in South Korea pulled it off. The whole thing took 6 hours to print. Living retinal cells stacked in precise layers with their own blood vessels. A hydrogel lens that auto-focuses. Biocompatible polymers shaping the white of the eye. And an optic nerve scaffold designed to guide fresh nerve growth straight to the brain. Then they put it inside a 31-year-old man who lost his sight 7 years ago in an industrial accident. Three weeks later, his brain started decoding the signals. He's now seeing at 20/60. Reading. Recognising faces. Naming colours. This is the first time a complex organ made of multiple tissue types has been printed AND successfully wired into the human nervous system. Science fiction quietly clocked out. Science just clocked in.
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