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Surgeons planning world's first HEAD transplant claim they repaired 'irreversible' spinal cord injuries in monkeys and dogs - which they say is proof they can start human trials

[HombreSecreto]

Now we know the plan for RBG.

[V_TWIN]

This oughta be an interesting thread

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah, yeah....and the Israelis found a cure for cancer 2 months ago.

[gaijin]

[FatherofFive]

Just make sure the brain isn’t Abby Normal.

[EagleUSA]

Liberal getting some help....

[US_MilitaryRules]

If you have a spare 100 million laying around, they will perform it for you.

[LibWhacker]

Their recent animal studies were done in China...

Good rule of thumb: Any "breakthrough" coming out of China is BOGUS, BOGUS, BOGUS!

[lee martell]

My untrained, unprofessional opinion:
Even if/when an actual human head transplant takes place, the patient will need to take an incredible amount of anti-rejection drugs to keep things functioning. These drugs would lower the immune response. By lowering the natural immune response, the patient will be prone to disease from all manner of infections a whole person could easily ignore.

[EinNYC]

I feel horrible about the pain and suffering inflicted on those poor dogs and monkeys for this research, which will likely prove a bunch of baloney.

[central_va]

[cymbeline]

How can all of the signal paths (nerves) going to/from the brain to various parts of the body be accurately spliced together.

[pigsmith]

Bump for Freeper madness! :-)

[Mr. Jeeves]

Wait a minute - does the head get to pick a new body or does the body get to pick a new head? Just who is the donor, here? :)

[I want the USA back]

Here we go again. This was talked about a few years ago, and is as stupid now as it was then.

I don’t doubt that it will be tried, and that there will be failures. Imagine the horror of the living head regaining consciousness, and facing the reality that the nerve impulses reaching it are not what it knew all its life. I contend that this will be impossible to take, and that the living person in the head will go insane, or express the preference to die.

And the pain? You’ve never had a pain in the neck like the person will feel.

Oh, the failures. The first 50 or so attempts will result in horrible failure, with the subject actually being euthanized. Don’t believe me? Just wait.

[from occupied ga]

[Flick Lives]

The surgeons aspiring to perform the world's first human head transplant claim they have made indisputable progress towards their controversial goal.

Usual sensationalistic B.S. by what passes as "reporting" today.

[Rinnwald]

[nicollo]

[chesley]

So. Where do they get the donors for the body? Is there gonna be a check on your driver’s license?