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11 years ago
There was even an article in Reader's Digest about a person who had an eye transplant and that how their eyes were now the color of the person who gave them the eyes.  How is that possible?  How can they cut through the optic nerve and reattach it?  
I do know about cornea transplants, that is not what I am talking about.
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11 years ago
They can cut through any living patent nerve and reattach it. It will heal itself and it's connections with the tissue to which it was attached. Nerve cell is unable to divide, but, it is very good at regenerating and growing because it is multinucleated.
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11 years ago
Horse puckey.

No such operation ever took place.  We can't transplant an eye, we're nowhere near being able to transplant an eye, and I don't expect to live to see the day they transplant an eye.  The article was either fiction or you're remembering it wrong.  Knowing Reader's Digest, it may have been fiction disguised as fact (they're not always all that careful about that).

Your innate skepticism is justified.  ;-)
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