And what happens is this can be implanted into a human heart without open heart surgery.

And this is a video that was taken by my surgical mentor, Dr. John Niparko, who implanted her.

John Pepper, bless his heart, professor of cardiothoracic surgery never done it before in his life he put the first one in, didn't like it, took it out, put the second one in.

Marrow transplantation programme, with the aim of increasing the number of transplantation centres and the number of transplantations performed

My doctor wanted me to get on the list for a lung transplant.

We don't need sophisticated heart transplants around the world.

More marrow transplantation centres have been established and more transplantations are being performed

Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks about what the implants lack They don't let you fully experience music yet. At TEDMED, Limb reviews the state of the art and the way forward.

And in transplantation, concepts shifted from whole organs to cells.

I was sitting there kind of unenthusiastically talking with the head transplant surgeon, and I asked him if I needed a transplant, what I could do to prepare.

And so for her, I put in a human meniscus allograft donor right into that knee joint space.

So I was privileged to train in transplantation under two great surgical pioneers Thomas Starzl, who performed the world's first successful liver transplant in 1967, and Sir Roy Calne, who performed the first liver transplant in the U.K.

And in my surgeon's 20 year career, he said it was among the most difficult transplants that he's ever performed.

Charity Tillemann Dick Singing after a double lung transplant

I returned to Singapore and, in 1990, performed Asia's first successful cadaveric liver transplant procedure, but against all odds.

In Australia, the number of people requiring kidney transplants was about 2,000 at the present time, with about 400 transplants performed each year.

The technology is similar to a microchip implanted for cats and dogs, and takes just 30 seconds.

And this surgery came along and basically made me who I am today and saved my life.

Here you can see the plate holding it, and you can see the implants being put in so that in one operation we achieve this and this.

In fact, in the last 10 years, the number of patients requiring an organ has doubled, while in the same time, the actual number of transplants has barely gone up.

British inventor microchips himself to get into house and car with a wave of hand

Artificial insemination and embryo implantation for an unmarried woman may be performed if she requests it.

In 1988, at the University of Minnesota, I participated in a small series of whole organ pancreas transplants.

This is the same procedure, but now done minimally invasively, with only three holes in the body where they're taking the heart and simply injecting stem cells through a laparoscopic procedure.

The face transplant has a role probably in burns patients to replace the skin.

Here are the implantation sites.

But not all patients on the transplant wait list are so fortunate.

Operations involving the transplantation of human organs are a tremendously important development in the safeguarding of human life.

It's surgically placed inside the inner ear.

Growing a mushroom is also part of a larger practice of cultivating decomposing organisms called decompiculture, a concept that was developed by an entomologist, Timothy Myles.

With 3D printing, we're seeing today that we can create much better implants.

Instead of starting with technology, the team started with people and culture.

TK Okay, so I think about nine months later that you had the targeted reinnervation surgery, took six more months to have all the reinnervation.

Now we've got the dawn of interventional surgery here.

We really are seeing the dawn of interventional surgery.

I still didn't want a transplant, but in a month, I was back in the hospital with some severely edemic kankles very attractive.

It's now being seeded with cartilage.

The main unit will then go inside the brain.

But some of Dad's fees... the Talleyrand operation...

Through these it is possible to manufacture spare parts for human bodies, transplant tissue and use ultrasonic rays in surgery.

As reported in the past, programmes designated as advanced technology programmes, such as those involving transplants, cardiovascular surgery, nephrology and genetics, continue to be affected by supply instability.

We then start adding the muscle on top.

That's what the surgeon is saying in the operating room when the patient's on the table.

And this, this is the implantable generation.

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