Cells give cosmetic surgery a new face

IMAGINE looking like a woman in her forties — but with a brain that’s almost a century old. Visualise the trauma of losing an arm in an accident — but then simply growing a new one.

Very soon we may live in a society where face transplants are common or where thirty-somethings routinely sign up for drug-based anti-ageing programmes which can also prevent weight gain.

Unbelievable? Not at all, according to the experts. In fact the revolution is already here, says consultant plastic surgeon Dr Labros Chatzis.