Surgery’s Far Frontier: Head Transplants

Wall St. J ^ | June 5, 2015 | SHIRLEY S. WANG

[Steelfish]

Surgery’s Far Frontier: Head Transplants Chinese doctor is doing head transplants in mice, in a sign of China’s focus on scientific research By SHIRLEY S. WANG June 5, 2015 HARBIN, China—Xiaoping Ren stood up after 10 hours hunched over an operating table and looked proudly at his patient, a small black mouse with a new brown head.

When he took a ventilator off the tiny creature’s throat, the head began breathing spontaneously with its new body. An hour later, the body twitched, and, a few hours after that, the mouse opened its eyes, Dr. Ren recalls.

[Bullish]

There may be some complications with that.

[SpaceBar]

Nightmarish. F’ing ghouls in my book.

[Gator113]

Poor mice.

[Gator113]

Agreed.

[867V309]

Ghoulish, puts China on the “cutting edge” with ISIS.

[Jonty30]

Don’t be surprised if they are doing all kinds of stuff, right out of horror and science fiction, in the labs.

[Bratch]

[Viking2002]

I'll pass.

[JohnnyP]

Well, ISIS has perfected taking the head off. They must have heard about Al Qaeda and their flying lessons. Or maybe the other way around. I guess heads have been rolling for centuries. Never mind.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Maybe Bruce Jenner should have considered a head transplant instead of opting for the chopadicoffame.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

And after they were done, the mice were ground up and stuffed into chickenballs with plum sauce.

[Shadow44]

This, brain transplants, and isolating brains all disturb me.

Brains are essential to the whole concept of the self. It’s the closest biological equivalent to the soul.

This research deeply unsettles me.

[SaveFerris]

Complete insanity.

[familyop]

[Norm Lenhart]

I don’t blame you. But it’s coming. One way or the other.

[dila813]

A cure for liberals?
Modern Marvels!

[Norm Lenhart]

No. Sadly the only ‘cure’ requires a head and body transplant. It’s the only way to be sure the disease is truly gone.

Well that and nukeing them from orbit. Which is also good.

[RginTN]

this makes me think of the sci fi cartoon Futurama

[upchuck]

Here’s a link that will get you around the WSJ pay wall:

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