“In June of 2021 Aaron James, then 44 years old, experienced a terrible accident while working as an electrical lineman. The military veteran and Arkansas resident lost much of the left side of his face—including his left eye—to severely disfiguring electrical burns that also destroyed his left arm.

Two years later James received the first-ever partial-face and whole-eye transplant, performed by surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City. More than a year after that James had made a strong recovery with no evidence of tissue rejection, as reported by his medical team in a paper published last September in JAMA. He still lacks any vision in the transplanted eye, but the eye itself has maintained its shape and blood flow—and there is evidence of electrical activity in the retina in response to light.”

From Scientific American.