Mary Roach

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1,088 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 26 Mar

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach · 17 Sep 2025 podcast

So it doesn't matter what materials.

And now it's kind of, I think, developed its own

cool to look a little bit bionic.

I think it's a much better time to have a prosthetic leg.

It's pretty hard to freak me out, Ali.

That's really, like the freakier it is, the more I'm just, wow, this is so cool.

I guess what was a little, a little freaky to me was this idea, okay, you mentioned the pigs, you know, xenotransplantation, you know, that's been a project ongoing for 30 years now, the effort to genetically tweak a pig so that its organs are

Don't create a reaction, like an immune reaction, a hyperimmune.

There's this hyperimmune response where if you were just to take an organ from a pig, put it into a person, the body just goes on the attack, like shuts it down.

It turns black.

It's gone.

And so they've taken that away.

So now there's still longer-term issues, but the place that we're at is you can buy a couple months' time.

There is one man who has got a – I think it's a kidney, and it was like five months as of June, and he's still going.

So if that would buy you enough time to –

be eligible for a human organ.

That's pretty cool.

Now, what I was going to say was a little skeevy to me was I was talking to someone about, well, what's the end point here?

And they were talking about chimerism or like chimera, chimerism, chimerism, I'm not sure the pronunciation.

Chimerism.

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