Nøgleord Artificial Organ

Ikke så langt ude i fremtiden vil det være muligt for mennesket at forbedre kroppen ved at udskifte ødelagte organer med kunstige dele. Der bare lige den hage, at det er dyrt, og hvis man ikke kan betale afdragene, kommer “The Repo Men” og tager kropsdelene tilbage. Jude Law spiller Remy, som er en af de bedste Repo Men. Men da han selv kommer bagud med betalingen af sit nye hjerte, er det hans gamle makker Jake, der får til opgave at fange ham, for at rive hans nye hjerte ud af brystet på ham.

The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.