Penny Sarchet

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1,083 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Penny Sarchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · Scientists Pioneer Surgical Methods for Human Head and Eye Transplants · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

So to go back to the rationale behind this, as we said, more than 15 million people live with spinal cord injury.

And, you know, potentially methods like this could be an approach to handle that, to improve life for them.

But Sergio Canavero is something of a controversial figure.

Can I just unpick that because I can see why certain types who want to live forever would want the option of swapping onto a new body.

But if we're thinking about this as a potential way to get a new body for people who have lost the use of their body, which has been one of the sort of stated aims, if that involves coming up with this technology to fuse the spinal cord, because you have to do that as part of the transplant and make it work, why can't we just do that so that the body you've got starts working again?

Why would you need to swap another one in?

What's the logic there?

Rowan, you did mention other attempts to sort of deal with this problem of what happens when you have a severed spinal cord.

And there are ones that are less grotesque, but it is still a really big job and requires these kind of big feats of bioengineering.

Back in 2022, a man with a severed spine was actually able to walk thanks to a spinal implant that sort of boosted his nerve signals that came down from the brain.

And sort of help them jump across or get round the break.

And so I think, you know, there are various attempts like these.

And, you know, nothing's going to be a really easy fix.

But I think if I had to put money on something helping people with spinal injury to walk again, that's where I'd put mine.

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The World, the Universe and Us · Climate Crisis Is Triggering Global Food Shortages - New Predictions Are Devastating · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

We've already seen a big increase in food prices over the last few years.

And there's been a sort of shifting baseline, hasn't there?

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