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

So in Minority Report, Tom Cruise had it done quite quickly and then had to suddenly skip the healing process and get his new eye open.

Well, that's what we're getting talked towards.

Amazing.

Yeah, so that's the legitimate side of the paper.

But someone on this paper, on the team, is a neurosurgeon who's famous at New Scientist, Sergio Canavero.

And he's the one who's been very open about wanting to perform head transplants or body transplants, as we should call it, in humans.

Yeah, and it's significant that it is in Russia that this sort of stuff goes on because the regulations are, let's say, looser there for this kind of very experimental neurosurgery.

And also there's a law coming to pass in September in Russia that will allow nerve, spinal cord and fragments to be added to the list of authorised transplant tissues.

And apparently Helen Thompson, who reported this for us,

said that there's no other countries where they allow that.

So this is the only country so far that you're allowed to muck around with, or you will be allowed to do this kind of transplant with spinal cord tissue.

Yeah.

I mean, as you know, there are other ways, but they're not really very wide.

Well, they're not at all widely available.

Not yet.

Yeah, not yet.

And so if you have a spinal cord injury, there's not much you can do about it.

So that's what they're ostensibly trying to get towards.

Nice understatement there.

Yeah, something of one.

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