Posted on 01/20/2016 2:38:57 PM PST by bkopto
A maverick surgeon who plans to transplant a human head onto another body has successfully performed the operation on a monkey, he claims.
Sergio Canavero made the shocking claim after a series of experiments on animals and human corpses, according to New Scientist.
Canavero said, 'The monkey fully survived the procedure without any neurological injury of whatever kind.'
Canavero claims that researchers led by Xiaoping Ren at Harbin Medical University connected up the blood supply between the head and the new body.
They did not attempt to connect the spinal cord, and the monkey died 22 hours later - but Canavero says that the experiment shows that if a monkey's head is cooled to -15 °C it can survive the operation without brain injury.
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Already been done.
Dr. Frankenstein
I volunteer my son in law. he’s the perfect candidate. Call me!
Will Obama Care cover getting head?
I think this was in a movie I saw a 3 AM once.
INNOCENTLY??? That was the least innocent line ever spoken in a mainstream Hollywood movie to date!!!
ROTFLOL!!!
Meat Head? Is that you, Archie?
Mars Attacks! showed it is possible.
How does it compare with ‘The Incredible Two headed Transplant’?
Gives the term “giving head” new meaning.
Water expands about 10% upon freezing, not good for my garden and not helpful to fresh meat.
May not be good for brain cells?
Yeah, there's that.
Hmmmmm....do I dare make a comment that will surely get me banned???? Let me give it some thought, first.
Even Dr. McCoy had trouble with that.
The headline says he plans to do a human head transplant next. However it seems he has some unfinished monkey business as he did not attach the spinal cord.
Just say, ditto!
I thought The Thing With Two Heads had a funnier script, but I’m sure someone out there would disagree!!
Actually, both movies would make a great double feature, with a quadruple sized bucket of popcorn!!
Hint: beware of macrobes.
Yeah, this is a direction I don’t think man needs to be taking.
I would think a combo of adult stem cells and cold laser therapy at the area to be joined, might show promise.
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