BBC: Superhuman: Spare Parts

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BBC’s Superhuman is a series profiling the human body, bionics, anatomy and the issues that arise with it. This episode, Spare Parts, talks about parts of our body that fail and how far medical science has reached in repairing and replacing these parts.

Check out the story of the little two year old boy Kyle and how he gets his hearing back with a cochlear implant, too freakin’ amazing. Also the story of an old dying NYC man who recieves the heart of a 21 year old, and how it radically turns his life around.

Some parts of this video might be disturbing and may not be suitable for people with a weak stomach. :slight_smile: Enjoy.

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as soon as the implant was turned on you could see the confusion and unpleasantness on kyle’s face.

amazing.

wow the surgery for the joining of the blood vessels!

dude look at the macrophages eating the red blood cells :hayaa: subhanallah!

great doc.

a question though: would you guys opt for an organ transplant knowing that it was probably grown in a pig?

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its actually white cells eating machrobes

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Yeah umm cells from a pig in my brain, i dunno man. Its not haram thats for sure, but eww ew ew yukh

I love Kyle's story.. too freakin good. Cant stop watching it again and again. And that 65 something guy who got a 21 year old's heart.. he's like a brand new person!!

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red blood cells: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Redbloodcells.jpg

a macrophage engulfing e-coli, with a white blood cell in the corner
http://s99.middlebury.edu/BI330A/projects/Howard/images/macrophage.jpg

machrobes: a word that does not exist.