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posted by martyb on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ozzy's-Secret-Lab dept.

Over at Newsweek, Hannah Osborne is reporting - First Human Head Transplant Successfully Performed on Corpse, Sergio Canavero Announces — Key bits:

Scientists have carried out a head transplant on a human corpse, the neurosurgeon behind the operation has announced.

At a press conference in Vienna, Austria, Sergio Canavero said his team was able to remove the head from one body and connect it to the body of another by fusing the spine, nerves and blood vessels. He said the next step will be to carry out the operation on a living person, The Telegraph reports.

"The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage,” he said. "And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.”

Canavero said a “high number” of people have volunteered to be his first head transplant patient. It is thought he will carry out the operation in China in December.

Because, of course, some of us are aware of the special dynamics of the intersection between Ethics, Journalism, and the Chinese government.

And then the next kicker to sufficiently anti-bait the click:

The Italian neurosurgeon did not present any evidence of his claims at the conference.

But, who knows what gruesome story we'll hear about in December.


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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:42AM (2 children)

    by legont (4179) on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:42AM (#599513)

    They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced “synaptic plasticity”—a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fountain-of-youth-young-blood-infusions-ldquo-rejuvenate-rdquo-old-mice/ [scientificamerican.com]

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:54AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @03:54AM (#599521)

    Is it more guesome than consuming babies blood?

    For sure, it didn't help Hillary.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:52AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:52AM (#599587)

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      Grandpa: One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach; all the damn vampires.

      Lost Boys, 1987. [imdb.com]