When the spare parts take over - transplant nightmare, here's where it gets a bit 'Frankenstein.'

That life saving transplant could have side effects!

Thanks to the Organ Donor scheme, thousands of lives have been saved and the quality of lives improved with donated human organs.

But, beyond the success stories, there is the other side of the coin, rejection and influence.

Rejection of organs, we have all heard about, this is likely due to the brain detecting that a rogue part has been installed and is trying to remove or eject it, pretty clever? So how does this work?

The Genetic strands of life perhaps code our being deeper than we think

Well, this likely has to do with the Genetic Coding unique to each of us. Essentially, all of our body parts are 'data coded' with our own genetic coding, like a computer has a unique IP address, we must therefore have a genetic fingerprint.

So, medication to stop rejection has to be given, why is this? Because the brain has already gotten the message that an organ has been 'deleted' from the body? And maybe then works out by the chemical messages that reach the brain, that something is 'different.' So, when a 'new' part appears in the circuit, it 'knows' chemically that something is wrong.

Almost, this like installing a wiring loom in a car and getting some of the plugs wrongly connected, it can start sending error messaging to the 'brain', like asking it do something out of sequence, as might happen to a robot if the software became corrupted. In a modern car, a wrong signal to the ECU can make the car malfunction.

Perhaps this type scenario in a human sends the brain neurons into some sort of a panic, or it might send out a signal that gets confused, much like a defective memory board that gets installed in a computer and the computer can't 'recognise' the board. But you know its there and installed.

Perhaps the brain neurons can't detect the original 'coded' organ that should be in the chain of human components and only detects something that is right, but is wrong because the fingerprint doesn't match.

Perhaps the DNA coding in our bodies goes deeper than we may appreciate, but this could have another reason that goes very deep and that is concerned with the next part of this work, influence.

Whilst the transplant of an organ may be a success and the rejection issue has been negated by medication that may fool the body by blocking chemical changes and then by reduced medication fooling the body into accepting something that should not be there, there is sometimes another thing that occurs and this could be straight out of a Frankenstein movie, that of 'influence.'

'Influence' is when the alien organ starts to exert the 'personality' of the donor and bring traits to the new 'host.' Such 'influences' have ranged from being attracted to certain foods, or in some cases turning people to become vegetarians, it can be attractions to some thing or a newly discovered dislike of something that you previously liked.

Although we now have a record of the human genome that if printed out on paper is an enormous 'build document,' within that 'script' as it were, must be trait indicators that code our very existence.

This is the brave new world of science, a world where we are in the shallow end of the gene pool at present in being able to determine the sex of a baby, perhaps in years to come, a manipulation of the human genome at a nuclear DNA level will effectively allow us to create a 'shopping list' human being.

Whilst this is preferable for disease or behavioural trait situations, it is starting to mess with nature. Nature makes compensations, what we may find is that by our 'customising,' that we are in danger of beautifying something but also causing further and possibly damaging and far reaching future problems.