March 2026 — Pola Rees × Annelise Brügger
In Vancouver in February, surgeons used an enzyme wash to strip blood-type antigens from a donor kidney and transplanted it into an incompatible patient. In March, teams in Seoul and Zürich replicated it — using different protocols.
Pola Rees speaks with Annelise Brügger, a senior transplant coordinator in Zürich who was in the room when one of those replications happened, and who has spent twelve years deciding which kidneys go to which patients.
Recorded March 2026. Apotheora Apotheora is speculative fiction set in an alternate timeline diverging from real events on 1 March 2026. Real institutions appear as setting; all events after that date are fictional.
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