Brain, Eyes, Testes: Off-Limits for Transplants?

April 30, 2018

(Medical Xpress) – Since the world’s first successful organ transplant in 1954—a kidney—the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could have his penis and scrotum replaced in a groundbreaking operation last month. A Frenchman recently became the first person to receive a second face transplant after the first failed, and another made history by regrowing skin lost over 95 percent of his body, thanks to a graft from his twin brother. Transplants are no longer limited to the vital organs: heart, liver, orlungs. Nowadays, people can get a new hand… or even a uterus. But some organs remain off-limits. For now.