Wow, I so hope this goes well for not only him but for the medical field and its future..........
Am I the only one who has visions of the book “That Hideous Strength” when I read this stuff?
I’m wondering who head they are going to put on shillary’s body?????
I still have ethical problems with this, because although they say the body donor is “brain dead”, that’s a subjective determination. In reality, a living, breathing person is going to be killed by doctors in order to acquire his body to be used for the transplant.
Maybe they could use aborted baby cadavers for the bodies that will grow into his adult head size?
Just wait until the gender benders get a hold of this...
I don't know if I wish for success here or not.
Certainly he picked the right human subject.
But, when he attached the head from one monkey to the body of another...did the spinal nerves reconnect for a fully mobile outcome?
Nevertheless, it gives me the creeps.
a healthy body from a brain dead donor
Dang. If successful, this guy will be a Dem.
Boy I hate to be a downer, but if reattaching a spinal cord could work, wouldn’t a lot of paralyzed people be walking?
Then there’s the issue of bodies rejecting something as small as a hand sometimes.
What’s the brain going to do with an entire new body.
I know they switched a monkey’s head but it was terrified and paralyzed.
What the heck, though. The guy’s really got nothing to lose.
When they put him under, they should switch the male donor with a female donor :)
I’m reminded of an old joke whose punchline is “I’m sorry, that’s not possible” (spoken in a very deep voice).
This will NOT end well. The vast complexities of nerve connections between the brain and the body will result is a head on top of a spastic, uncontrollable body.
But has this even worked on animals? I remember reading he had done it on a monkey or something and it was still paralyzed and died later.
“The $15m surgery would see Spiridinov’s head removed from his body and attached to a healthy body from a brain dead donor.”
Plenty of available donors from the Republican leadership.
Oh good! Can I get one? My old one don’t work as well as it once did—LOL!
It’s a shame they can’t do it this year. Obama is in desperate need of a head with a functional brain. After 2017, it won’t matter if he gets the transplant.
What could go wong?
This is the future. Soon we’ll be digitally uploaded. Heck, my Amazon echos are amazing cheap technology that I didn’t dream of even more than 5 years ago.
Bred bodies with head transplants will eventually be a standard thing. One bred from your stem cells.
Oh, and anyway, The Man With Two Heads was one of the unintentionally funniest movies of all time.
The movie had exactly two special effects. When they needed a shot like this, Ray Milland stood behind Rosie Greer and they wore a single coat. And when they needed a far away body shot like running down the street, Rosie Greer wore a rubber Ray Milland head on his shoulder.