World's first human head transplant a success, controversial scientist claims

www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | Nov 17, 2017 | By Sarah Knapton

[Popman]

-—18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.——

It may be news to these doctors but we have been reconnecting nerves and blood vessels though mirco surgery for a long time...

[ETL]

[Boogieman]

“on a corpse”

Hmm... doesn’t sound so “successful”.

[tumblindice]

[Boogieman]

Hey, they could also give Bruce Jenner a real woman’s body, isn’t that what is really important nowadays?

[gaijin]

When the Communist leadership gets old and gray and Haggard they will simply transplant their own heads onto the bodies of falun gong.

[AmericanMermaid]

Lol! That’s when the story ceased to be miraculous!

[DakotaGator]

The world's first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.

Patient is expected to pursue Democrat nomination for the next presidential election.

[ETL]

January 2016

Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon

The plan to perform a human head transplant is on track, says Sergio Canavero, after successful experiments on monkeys and mice

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2073923-head-transplant-carried-out-on-monkey-claims-maverick-surgeon/

[cymbeline]

Why not call it a body transplant.

Remember this joke?

Wife of deceased husband is in funeral parlor looking at him in the casket. He’s wearing a blue suit. She sees another man in another casket wearing a black suit. Asks if her husband can be given a black suit.

Next day she’s back and her husband has a black suit. She thanks the mortician. He says, “Oh it was easy. I just swapped heads”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 11th_VA.

Of course, this means that Hitlery will run able to run for POTUS indefinitely, all she'll need is a series of donor bodies, and thanks to Arkancide, there will never be a lack.

[apocalypto]

Beyond creepy.

[ConservaTeen]

For the first volunteer I’d nominate Mitchell McConnell for a transplant - one with a working brain...

[Robert DeLong]

There was no measurable difference in the before & after examinations, thus it must have been successful. 8>)

[trebb]

How do you know the nerves work on a dead corpse ???

If they were both Democrats, there would be zero difference....dead or alive.

[Conan the Librarian]

“Jan in the pan”

[gathersnomoss]

I came for the posts.

[Mariner]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/head-transplant-has-been-successfully-done-on-a-monkey-maverick-neurosurgeon-sergio-canavero-claims-a6822361.html

[Kaslin]

It is BS because the corpse is still dead.

[Pollster1]

For the first volunteer I’d nominate Mitchell McConnell for a transplant - one with a working brain...

No good. He needs a spine too.