After the recent successful full face transplant done to Connie Culp, I browsed for the list of first successful transplants ever conducted. I found out from wiki that there are just few of them. Here are some of them in photos:

1905: First successful cornea transplant by Eduard Zirm — Alois Gloger received the first successful cornea transplant.

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How would you like your puppy or dogs to glow in the dark? South Korean scientists have already created four glow-in-the-dark dogs by using cloning techniques. One dog is named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – considered now to be the world’s first transgenic dog. According to a report, the dogs “are beagles and look fairly normal in daylight, but when darkness falls and the ultraviolet light comes out, they glow red.”

Here are the Glow in the dark dogs photos

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