Rowan Hooper

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1,494 appearances 19 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

Exactly.

Yeah, so eye transplants have been done, but the eye has been kept alive but hasn't become functional again.

So this is the important bit, keeping the retina functional and then maybe stitching it back together again or connecting it back to the optic nerve is what you need to do.

Yeah, I was looking at that.

Aaron James, the guy's name was, and he'd had an accident at work and a massive electric shock to his face, burnt it all off.

And I always find these face transplant stories so moving because you're getting another chance at life from someone else's face and then it transforms your own life.

And he said, you know, he's grasping this opportunity with both hands.

He's got a second chance at life and it's just really moving.

Yeah, but as I say, that eye, so they transplanted one of the eyes, but it didn't restore the vision in that eye that was damaged.

But at least he has a living eye in that side of the face.

But I was thinking about this, like how technically hard is an eye transplant?

You know, how do you even access...

All the stuff at the back of the eye.

I don't know how they go about doing it.

Microsurgery and things like that.

But you have to get behind there and get inside it.

No, I saw his face.

Amazing.

It's amazing stuff.

Probably not worth looking too more deeply into that because it's going to be really squeamish to see how they did it.

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