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Surgeons perform world's first human eye transplant

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November 10, 2023

Surgeons in New York have performed the first ever transplant of an entire human eye. In surgery that took 21 hours, they restored large parts of a patient's face and reconnected a donor eye. The patient had accidentally touched a live wire in 2021.

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