
The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.
First Aired: 1/13/2016
Languages: Swedish
Created by: Bosse Lindquist
Type: Miniseries
Countries: Sweden

Self - Reporter

Bosse Lindquist
Self - Speakerröst

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
Self (archive footage)

Johannes Hallbom
Self - Reporter
Anna Nordbeck
Self - Reporter
Johannes Wahlström
Self - Reporter

Beyene Andemariam
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Julia Tuulik
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Andrej Vasiljev
Self - Julias make
Natalia Tuulik
Self - Julias mamma
Karl-Henrik Grinnemo
Self - Professor vid Institutionen för kirurgiska vetenskaper; Thoraxkirurgi
Matthias Corbascio
Self - Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset: Institutionen för molekylär medicin och kirurgi
Igor Polyakov
Self - Vice chefsläkare på Krasnodar Regional Hospital
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