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.

Similarly, marrow and tissue transplants cause conflicts of interest between patients awaiting a transplant and potential donors, dead or alive, and their families.

(c) In the case of R. v. Cambridge Health Authority, the applicant was refused treatment of bone marrow transplant for her acute myeloid leukaemic condition because the National Health Service would not pay for it.

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.

Susan Lim Transplant cells, not organs

So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation.

Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow

Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner a new device that quickly harvests life saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult stem cells found in bone marrow can be used to treat many terminal conditions, from Parkinson's to heart disease.

The transplant community has actively campaigned in organ donation.

Charity Tillemann Dick Singing after a double lung transplant

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

The testing of donor blood and transplant organs is mandatory.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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.

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

The average waiting time for such a transplant was three years.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

More marrow transplantation centres have been established and more transplantations are being performed

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The embargo has affected the programme for treating children needing a liver transplant.

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.

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

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

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.

In many countries, the supply of blood for medical purposes relies on voluntary, anonymous donations. Worldwide, more than 11 million people have put their names on donor registries for bone marrow, signifying their willingness to donate their marrow to a stranger.

Do you suppose we could find some wild wisteria... and transplant it around the cabin?

So I was privileged to train in transplantation under two great surgical pioneers 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.

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

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

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