• Question: have you made frankeinstein yet???

    Asked by chubbynugget to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      No and I don’t plan to! yuck! I’m quite happy with the natural monsters without any new ones!
      Did you see the komodo dragons in the new James Bond? FREAKY!

    • Photo: Louise Stanley

      Louise Stanley answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      No not monsters but body parts from healthy donors (including from dead people) are used to replace damaged parts of other people in transplant operations. So kind of a mini Frankenstein’s monster but without the monster part!

    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 19 Nov 2012:

      As Louise S said, we don’t make Frankenstein monsters like in the novel, but we do transplant organs from one person to another. We also take heart valves from pigs and put them into some people with serious heart problems. And we have begun making cyborgs – combining people and computers to allow blind people to see, or some paralysed people to move, or people with artificial hands to move their fingers by thinking about it.

    • Photo: Louise Walkin

      Louise Walkin answered on 19 Nov 2012:

      Nope, no Frankenstein will be made by me! Organs from both live and dead people can be transplanted into unhealthy people who need new organs. It’s quite amazing how and organ from one person can be given to another, it quite a complicated operation and you need to take lots of anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life, but it is life-saving! I don’t think I’d call anyone who received an organ transplant a “Frankenstein” though – just a very lucky person! 🙂

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