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Cryogenically frozen brains will be 'woken up' and transplanted in donor bodies...
www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | 27 April 2017 • 11:46am | Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

Posted on 04/27/2017 6:18:46 AM PDT by Red Badger

People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be 'woken up' within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed.

Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants.

If the procedures are successful, he believes that frozen brains could be thawed and inserted into a donor body.

Hundreds of people who are dying or paralysed have had their bodies or brains cryogenically preserved in the hope that medical science will be able to bring them back to life and cure their conditions.

Although many experts are sceptical that huge organs like the brain can be thawed without damage, Prof Canavero said he believes the first frozen head could soon be resurrected.

Speaking to the German magazine Ooom, he said he planned to awaken patients frozen by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation which is based in Arizona.

"We will try to bring the first of the company's patients back to life, not in 100 years. As soon as the first human head transplant has taken place, i.e. no later than 2018, we will be able to attempt to reawaken the first frozen head," said Prof Canavero.

"We are currently planning the world's first brain transplant, and I consider it realistic that we will be ready in three years at the latest.

"A brain transplant has many advantages. First, there is barely any immune reaction,which means the problem of rejection does not exist.

"The brain is, in a manner of speaking, a neutral organ. If you transplant a head with vessels, nerves, tendons and muscles, rejection can pose a massive problem. This is not the case with the brain."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Science
KEYWORDS: brain; frozen; transplant
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To: Red Badger
Uh oh....Chelsea Clinton looks to be a likely body donor for Hillary...

"Why not? That girl hasn't ever done anything useful. And I'm sick and tired of being tossed into SUVs like a bag of manure."

21 posted on 04/27/2017 6:34:02 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger

Better include the stomach too


22 posted on 04/27/2017 6:35:12 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: goodnesswins

Why?.................


23 posted on 04/27/2017 6:35:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Red Badger

People tend to think that the “person” is located in the brain, and the body is like a car or motorcycle that carries the “person” around.

I think that a lot of what we think of as “thinking” or “consciousness” occurs in places in the body other than the brain. IOW, when these brains “awake” in someone else’s body, they are going to experience weird, possibly horrible, stuff. In some cases, it may be like a Hell on earth.


24 posted on 04/27/2017 6:36:54 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Red Badger
Hillary and obama need my help. Image result for hitler's brain
25 posted on 04/27/2017 6:37:24 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: Red Badger

This will play out like the Tower of Babel. God doesn’t like competition.


26 posted on 04/27/2017 6:37:27 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: varyouga

We are all given a time to die. When it’s time, it’s over.


27 posted on 04/27/2017 6:40:13 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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28 posted on 04/27/2017 6:40:32 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Red Badger

The D party has quite a few donor bodies waiting for brains. I’d put Maxine Waters at the top of the list, though Sheila Jackson Lee is in serious need also. Many Rs are in need but a little lower on the list.


29 posted on 04/27/2017 6:40:55 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, agreed. Recently I found used copies of that and “Time Enough for Love “ for a buck. Hadn’t read them since the 70s.


30 posted on 04/27/2017 6:47:00 AM PDT by kallisti (Both soliloquized alternately and imagined they were conversing)
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To: bk1000

Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck’s?

No.

Ah! Very good. Would you mind telling me whose brain I DID put in?

Then you won’t be angry?

I will NOT be angry.

Abby someone.

Abby someone. Abby who?

Abby... Normal.

Abby Normal?

I’m almost sure that was the name.


31 posted on 04/27/2017 6:48:03 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Red Badger

which means the problem of rejection does not exist.
= = =

Well don’t put a Conservative’s brain into a Liberal’s body.

Something WILL reject!


32 posted on 04/27/2017 6:54:22 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: dowcaet

::”We already have a large group of Americans with frozen brains. They’re called Democrats::””

Can you imagine some poor soul being given Maxine Waters’ brain? Nah - not possible - she doesn’t have one!


33 posted on 04/27/2017 6:57:25 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: varyouga

Several plants and animals can naturally survive hard freezing with no damage
= = =

I knew this dog, named “Deeper”.

He had been locked in the walk in freezer over night.

The next morning, when found, they laid his stiff/frozen? body in the sun (black fur). By and by he woke up. He was a little slower after that.


34 posted on 04/27/2017 6:58:00 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
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To: bk1000

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the title...Classic!


35 posted on 04/27/2017 6:59:07 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: varyouga

You might find this company and its research interesting: http://www.alcor.org/


36 posted on 04/27/2017 7:02:11 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Red Badger

Freeing up some freezer space for more suckers.


37 posted on 04/27/2017 7:03:50 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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Sears is having a sale.....................


38 posted on 04/27/2017 7:04:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Red Badger

Getting a head start on Memorial Day sales.


39 posted on 04/27/2017 7:07:26 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Red Badger

Even if they brought Walt Disney back I doubt he’d want to stay


40 posted on 04/27/2017 7:07:46 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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