Posted on 03/28/2019 10:50:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sergio Canavero, of Italy, and Xiaoping Ren, of China, published two studies on Wednesday
In the studies, they claim to cure 'irreversible' spinal cord injuries in monkeys and dogs
The papers were published in the peer-reviewed US journal Surgical Neurology International
Describing their findings as 'unprecedented', Canavero and Ren say this shows they are ready to conduct human trials
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The surgeons aspiring to perform the world's first human head transplant claim they have made indisputable progress towards their controversial goal.
Sergio Canavero, of Italy, and Xiaoping Ren, of China, published two studies on Wednesday in which they claim to cure 'irreversible' spinal cord injuries in monkeys and dogs.
According to the papers, published in the peer-reviewed US journal Surgical Neurology International, the animals were able to walk again after their spinal cords were severed then successfully repaired.
Describing their findings as 'unprecedented', Canavero and Ren say this shows they are ready to conduct human trials.
Canavero, based in Turin, told USA Today, his studies 'completely reject' the view that 'a severed spinal cord cannot be mended in any way, a mantra uncritically repeated over and over.'
It's not clear where the trials would be conducted.
Their recent animal studies were done in China, at Harbin Medical University, where researchers across the country have been pushing the envelope scientifically and ethically, sending pulses racing across the world.
Until 2018, they had a candidate - 33-year-old Russian computer science student Valery Spiridonov, who has a fatal muscle-wasting disease.
But Spiridonov dropped out because his new wife gave birth to their 'miracle son', which gave him pause.
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Not sure if that's an exact quote. Its been a llllloooonnnng time since I saw that episode.
It can’t be accurately spliced back together. I had a benign tumor on a facial nerve. The doctors took it out but I have some loss of facial muscle function. Not easily noticeable unless I point it out. But they can’t get it perfectly repaired.. Basically they stick the ends together and hope it will grow back.
So. Where do they get the donors for the body? Is there gonna be a check on your driver’s license?
it figures that it was the italians AND chinese making these kinds of claims ... brazil would if they COULD, but they know no one would believe them, so they just stick to bogus flying saucer claims ...
Are you being Transphobic?
Wait, wait, wait!
The patient who absolutely needs a head transplant is the FUGLIEST Man Alive, Representative Al Green!
Nah, it would be too hard to match up that pencil neck.
“It can’t be accurately spliced back together”
And the other posts on the subject:
There must be are hundreds of signal paths coming out of the brain. If you have a brain and a body separate, how do you figure out which nerve strands to connect to which? They aren’t color coded.
As one of the posters said, maybe the brain+body can automatically straighten out the connections.
Maybe multiple signals are multiplexed on one strand and each end point picks out the information for it.
This is all too Frankenstein-ish to me.
There was a movie called I think "The Island" that had that exact premise.
A (Star Trek) "Enterprise" episode had their indispensable chief engineer cloned to save his deteriorating comatose self. Sadly, the clone WAS a person unto himself and developed attachments to the crew and the love of life. In the end he voluntarily sacrificed his life to save the engineer but everyone was revolted and upset about it.
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