He has signed up his first patient, a Russian man called Valery Spiridinov who will have his head frozen and then grafted onto a new donor body, according to his doctor.
The world's first human head transplant has allegedly been performed on a corpse in an 18 hour operation which successfully connected the spine, nerves and blood vessels of two people.
The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, China, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey.
Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, who has been working with the team, said they would 'imminently' move onto a living human who was paralysed from the neck down.
More @ The Telegraph
There comes a point when it isn't science. It is just weird.
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People freeze heir bodies and/or heads in hope that they will be brought back to live in the future.
DeleteWeird, that. I suppose it might be physically possible, in a conceptual sense, to connect up the spine and the venous/arterial system but to connect up all of the the integral nerves is probably beyond us at this stage. We shall just have to wait and see.
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You think that's a kick? Kenny Lane over at "Knuckle draggin' my life away" Just posted that the gun banners want to go after antique firearms and MUZZLELOADERS!! They want them regulated just like "assault weapons". Subject to FFL and 4477 registration. When they say "citizen disarmament" , they MEAN IT.----Ray
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DeleteI hope they perfect this! Then we can pursue a cure for that which afflicts congress.....CRIS (Cranial Rectal Inversion Syndrome).
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