• Question: If you were to make an invention for organs, what would u create?

    Asked by shaheerzaki786 to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Vee Mitchell

      Vee Mitchell answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      As a Neuroscientist it would have to be an artificial brain or parts of the brain at least. It would be so much easier if you could implant an artificial brain into someones damaged brain which had been programmed to do the job that was needed by that particular part.
      Stem cells may well be able to do this in the future.

    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Heart disease kills more people in the UK than any other disease. It’s because the arterties in the heart get clogged up. I think it would be great to have a tiny internal brush that moved about the heart, keeping the arteries clear, breaking up and dispersing all the harmful placques that build up over time.

    • Photo: Bob Bonwick

      Bob Bonwick answered on 3 Jul 2012:

      I’d like to invent a microscopic digger, one that can cut away individual cells and test them at the same time to see if they are cancerous. Then, teams of my molecular diggers could go in and remove a tumour completely leaving none behind, only healthy tissues.

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