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A surgeon says full-body transplants could become a reality in just two years.
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.
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...I'd still be stuck with this face.
Yikes.
See ya. Dave
...your foresight could finally pay off, if you kept up the payments on your respective freezers.
"""Despite Canavero’s enthusiasm, many surgeons and neuroscientists believe massive technical hurdles push full body transplants into the distant future. The starkest problem is that no one knows how to reconnect spinal nerves and make them work again. Were that possible, people paralysed by spinal injuries could have surgery to make them walk again.“There is no evidence that the connectivity of cord and brain would lead to useful sentient or motor function following head transplantation,” Richard Borgens, director of the Center for Paralysis Research at Purdue University in Indiana, US, told New Scientist."""
No me.
If you were run over by a train and cut clean in two at the chest, yes, maybe it's worth a go, but you would be probably much worse off than a quadriplegic - probably more like one of those iron lung polio victims.
Cheers,
John K
Edits: 02/26/15
...the great film, "Reanimator".
Giving head LOL!
Cheers,
John K
You read the Guardian! ;-)
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"If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future."
...maybe someone reads it to him.
but now and then an article from it comes thru the ether and gobsmacks me.
Will I be able to choose the body?
I mean, there are issues such as lots of moles, scars, gunshot or knife wounds, etc. I don't want that body.
:)
Whats wrong with scars? I wear mine with pride.
nt
all the best,
mrh
one will get installed backwards...
Edits: 02/26/15
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