Alice Klein

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164 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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The World, the Universe and Us · Why Humans Like Bigger Breasts - And a New Way to Augment Them · 25 Aug 2026 podcast

And actually, although she's the first person to have the dissolvable scaffolds and fat put in for a first time breast augmentation, there has been another clinical trial already that's tested this technique to r to actually reconstruct the breasts of nineteen individuals after they had silicone implants removed due to various complications.

Yeah, uh there were no safety concerns.

Uh it and it found that it took about a year for the scaffolds to fill with new tissue.

And then about another year or two for the scaffolds to fully dissolve and disappear.

Yes, I mean I haven't felt it, but um apparently

The people who have had it they say that um at first their breasts feel quite unusually firm because of the scaffold structure.

But once they break down, they say it feels quite soft and natural.

And um also the researchers who've been looking at this study, they said that actually after a while, if you do MRI scans, you can't tell the difference between that new tissue that's formed and the existing breast tissue that was or that was already there.

And so the aim now is to trial the procedure on fifty-three participants and follow them for several years to see whether it's safe and effective.

And there are some plastic surgeons who are skeptical about this new technology because they think that there might be a risk that the scaffolds will fill up with scar tissue rather than regenerated fat tissue.

So we do need more long term clinical data um before we could offer this more widely.

Well, there's actually this other group in Australia that's developing a similar kind of scaffold implant, um and it's made of a different dissolving polymer.

And the idea is that it could potentially be inserted when someone has a broken bone or osteoporosis or something.

And uh cells could then grow along that framework and heal the bone.

So it's possible that we'll see all sorts of these kinds of scaffolding plants, um, finding different applications around the body.

Yeah, well this is a bit of a puzzle, um, 'cause w humans are a bit weird because we're the only mammal with breasts that become permanently enlarged from sexual maturity onwards.

So not just during pregnancy and lactation, but you know, from when you go through puberty.

Yeah.

But in humans there seems to be some kind of evolutionary benefit or preference for fuller breasts.

why?

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