And so this informs, among other things, of course, a treatment for bone marrow transplant, which he undertakes.

And ultimately and here's a picture of our bone marrow transplant survivors, who come together for a reunion each year at Stanford.

This is not a life saving transplant

A diet including bone marrow fueled further brain growth.

So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

And we found, to our surprise, that we not only got bone marrow out, but we got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner, compared to the normal device.

Shortly after I performed the first liver transplant,

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation.

The surgeon persuaded him to undergo an organ transplant.

The transplant community has actively campaigned in organ donation.

And the Marrow Miner, the way it works is shown here.

The surgeon persuaded me to undergo an organ transplant operation.

Let's imagine that we transplant this question back in time.

I still didn't want a transplant, but in a month,

If someone needs a kidney transplant or a heart transplant, maybe in the future, we could take a colony of these embryonic stem cells.

So, remember I told you about my brother's stem cell transplant.

If you have a heart transplant, you're still the same person.

If you have a memory transplant, are you the same person?

This is the kidney transplant I was never supposed to have.

Now when I look back, the transplant was actually the easiest part.

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

If you have a belief transplant, would you be the same person?

So, a few years ago, I'm doing my transplant fellowship at Stanford.

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.

We've just come out, we're commercializing, this year, generation 2.0 of the Marrow Miner.

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. in the following year.

And that's where we're failing, and that's where we need the face transplant.

I woke up from a month long coma, following a double lung transplant.

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

And, when they eventually betray us to the marrow, there is no way to resist !

I didn't bring a human brain, but I did bring a liter of bone marrow.

Tim can you tell me whether my brother's stem cell transplant worked or not?

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

In the last decade the number of patients waiting for a transplant has doubled.

I invented a device called the MarrowMiner, a much less invasive way for harvesting bone marrow.

We're sending his marrow across the country to save the life of a child with leukemia.

So why should you care? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.

It may encourage more people to sign up to be potential live saving bone marrow donors.

We take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and actually better survival using our own bone marrow drive cells after a heart attack.

Many people after a kidney transplant will develop a little fluid collection around the kidney.

So in addition to doing the transplant, we had to find out how to get a bacterial chromosome out of the eukaryotic yeast into a form where we could transplant it into a recipient cell.

Carole Lartigue led the effort to actually transplant a bacterial chromosome from one bacteria to another.

But 20 years on, my patient, Surinder, is Asia's longest surviving cadaveric liver transplant to date.

like a heart, or liver, or lung transplant it is a quality of life transplant, and as a result, are the patients going to say, if they get a malignant cancer 10 or 15 years on,

So I thought of a minimally invasive approach, and a new device that we call the Marrow Miner.