Posted on 11/17/2017 7:18:19 AM PST by 11th_VA
The world's first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.
At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that a team at Harbin Medical University had "realised the first human head transplant" and said an operation on a live human will take place "imminently".
The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey.
Prof Canavero, said: "The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain dead organ donors is the next stage.
"And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.
Prof Canavero...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Oops, no, that synopsis was drek, this is my précis from the Wikipedia piece.
Sounds right out of Return to Oz.
If he really wanted to make headlines the transplant would be transgender.
LOL... quite the opposite... it was a success since the patient did not die ... dead people don't.
The next step is to give the surgeon a Nobel (or an Oscar) for successful corpse molestation.
That was such a wonderfully bad movie!
And, I believe, the only Rosey Grier/Ray Milland collaboration.
Maybe now the democracks can finally get their party a new head; they’ve been headless for a while.
Actually, I would say Maxine “Polluted” Waters has been the face of the party, if not the head (come to think of it, a face transplant might be in order, too).
Even if we can do this, should we?
What is the balance of good and evil here?
Might not a billionaire be tempted to buy a new body? And might someone like Soros be less than concerned whether the original owner was through with it or not?
“make headlines” — now that’s funny.
Nope! Snowflakes nerves would be connected but they would still be brain dead. And, they would still get on our nerves.
What about a living corpse?
Read the book Dr Frankenstein jahahahahahahahahaha
Even if we can do this, should we?
What is the balance of good and evil here?
Might not a billionaire be tempted to buy a new body? And might someone like Soros be less than concerned with whether the original owner was through with it or not?
Hope lives yet for Al Gore!
——18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.——
Since the “patient” is dead reconnected nerves, blood vessels have no to show if they work...
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