Scientists Pioneer Surgical Methods for Human Head and Eye Transplants

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  We have two extraordinary breakthroughs in transplant surgery to report today.

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  The first is a way to keep human eyes alive after

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  death so that you might be able to do an eye transplant.

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  And the second is a way to fuse a severed spinal cord and, you know,

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  potentially that could allow people with spinal injuries to walk again and also potentially pave the way to so-called...

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  Head transplants, body transplants, I think they should be called.

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  They should.

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  Now, we have a rule, as you know, in New Scientist,

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  you're not allowed to say this is like something out of science fiction.

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  So don't say it, Rowan.

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  No, I have to say it.

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  I have to say it.

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  In this occasion, rules are there to be broken.

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  Eye transplants and body or head transplant, that is very science fiction-y.

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  We're not reporting that yet, but we're reporting...

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  Significant steps towards those kinds of surgeries.

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  So that is definitely reminiscent of science fiction.

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  All right, I'll allow it.

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