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Letter: Getting sniffy about the future of nose jobs

Published 9 April 2025

From Wai Wong, Melbourne, Australia

The techniques involved in the futuristic “nose job” you imagined could have better uses than smell augmentation. Implanting programmed stem cells and reconnecting neurons could restore normal function to all sorts of organs, eliminating diabetes, paralysis, anosmia, blindness, hearing loss and more. Increased neuroplasticity could help with stroke, dementia and intellectual training. The nose job itself, however, sounds risky without the original sense of smell to fall back on. Better to leave smelling work to trained animals (15 March, p 22).

Issue no. 3538 published 12 April 2025

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