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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Dr. Moreau, I presume.
Put this under the list of “Things That Make Me Physically Ill”.
lol. great episode.
but wouldn’t they be doing that already with paralyzed people?
i think he’s crazy and like i said, exchanging heads has been done, to the monkey’s horror.
i’m NO PETA guy that’s for sure.
but WTH man? this is beyond cruelty to no end because we are no where near being able to do this.
and if it is possible, what part of your body is the soul in if you can get a new one?
and th problem with living for hundreds of years, is your brain cells dont cooperate.
you can’t replace them with stem cells like other parts because the essential parts that make you, you, would be replaced with new cells, and old memories gone.
my head hurts lol
lol that LITTLE obstacle
more like Dr. Moron
more like Dr. Moron
They are starting to. In its infanny though. Short term will be hardware b/c it is in later development stages. But it has critical drawvacks that cannot be overcome in the real world.
Aw, the poor monkey. Maybe we could transplant Jeb’s head to it. He isn’t using it.
i have an eight year old head injury. i get by. physical symptoms much worse than cognitive
wake up with severe internal tremors and muscles feel like they’re pulling apart.
get chills alot, red face, burning through entire body like chemical fire.
they have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what is going on, and how to help it,
and after initial MRI, brain looks fine for 7 years now.
so they CANT SEE IT. CANT HELP IT
but they’re gonna put a guy’s head on another guy’s body!!!
forgive me for doubting this!! lol
Sorry i thought i was responding to antoher thread about darpa implants, not head transplants.
THAT sounds more fascinating and MUCH more realistic,
and could help our wounded soldiers MUCH more than this stupid head transplant nonsense.
doctor should be arrested before he can even try.
how about being able to treat ANY neurological injury decently before doing such nonsense.
NARPA very interesting
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