Xenotransplantation

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Amidst the aftermath of COVID-19 waiting lists continue to grow for those in need of an organ transplant, whilst simultaneously in an American surgery a man recieves the heart of a pig. Animal donors may be the answer to our shortage of available organs, but the procedure isn't quite ready to become common place. Take a trip down memory lane and embark on the jounrey of transplantation, where it began, where we are right now and what the future might look like in the next decade. Plus, catch up on chimps applying insects to their wounds, the current uses of facial recognition and how tech can... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:22.1	technology and medicine with me, Chris Smith and Adam Murphy.
0:25.2	Coming up, a breakthrough in the treatment of people paralyzed by spinal injuries,
0:29.7	also why we should worry about people using facial recognition to track us and signs that COVID
0:35.3	jabs did alter women's periods, but not very much and not for long.
0:40.4	And after doctors transplanted a pig's heart into a human last month, we're dissecting the story of the field of xenotransplantation.
0:48.5	What's involved? Is this safe?
0:51.0	And will it solve the shortage of donor organs?
0:54.0	The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. First this week injuries to the spinal cord usually result in permanent disabilities including paralysis.
1:14.4	This is because the spinal cord is effectively a giant bundle of nerve pathways to connect the
1:18.4	brain with the motor neurons that make muscles move.
1:21.6	Cutting the cord disconnects the two, so signals to move can't make it through.
1:25.4	But now, scientists in Switzerland have published results on a system that they've developed
1:30.0	to bypass the block. They use electrical implants in the spinal cord controlled by external computer
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