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Topic: Human head transplant less than a year away
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Sun 04/30/17 01:31 PM




Human head transplant less than a year away, surgeon says

Sergio Canavero has revealed that the world's first human head transplant will take place within 10 months, and he's already planning his next project.
By this time next year, if all goes according to plan, the world's first human head transplant will have taken place, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has revealed.

In early 2015, Canavero made headlines around the world when he announced that he would perform the ground-breaking surgery within two years. Now, he has revealed in an interview with German magazine OOOM that it's going to take place within 10 months, in China.

The patient will not be previous transplant volunteer Valery Spiridonov, who has a form of spinal muscular atrophy called Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease.

"The first patient will be Chinese," Canavero said.

The Chinese team of doctors will be led by Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, who in 2014 published his research on head transplants on mice. Ren was also a member of the team that performed the first successful hand transplant in the US, and in January 2016 published as co-author alongside Canavero an article in the journal Surgical Neurology International on the scientific backlash on the procedure.

The technique was laid out in a 2013 paper, involving a procedure estimated to take 36 hours.
Canavero claims to have successfully performed the procedure on a monkey. But other scientists have expressed ethical concerns. New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan said Canavero was "out of his mind," noting that even if the procedure can be performed successfully, we have no idea what effect the chemistry of a new body would have on the transplanted head and brain.

DoDo should be firstbigsmile

https://www.cnet.com/news/surgeon-claims-first-human-head-transplant-a-year-away/


I don't see how this would even be possible. The head being being transplanted on the other body would have to be dead...brain dead as well...so how would it work?

Let me explain, si je peux

You will need a head, a body, preferably both at room temperature, a sharp scalpel


Hahaha tongue2

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Sun 04/30/17 01:37 PM





Human head transplant less than a year away, surgeon says

Sergio Canavero has revealed that the world's first human head transplant will take place within 10 months, and he's already planning his next project.
By this time next year, if all goes according to plan, the world's first human head transplant will have taken place, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has revealed.

In early 2015, Canavero made headlines around the world when he announced that he would perform the ground-breaking surgery within two years. Now, he has revealed in an interview with German magazine OOOM that it's going to take place within 10 months, in China.

The patient will not be previous transplant volunteer Valery Spiridonov, who has a form of spinal muscular atrophy called Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease.

"The first patient will be Chinese," Canavero said.

The Chinese team of doctors will be led by Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, who in 2014 published his research on head transplants on mice. Ren was also a member of the team that performed the first successful hand transplant in the US, and in January 2016 published as co-author alongside Canavero an article in the journal Surgical Neurology International on the scientific backlash on the procedure.

The technique was laid out in a 2013 paper, involving a procedure estimated to take 36 hours.
Canavero claims to have successfully performed the procedure on a monkey. But other scientists have expressed ethical concerns. New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan said Canavero was "out of his mind," noting that even if the procedure can be performed successfully, we have no idea what effect the chemistry of a new body would have on the transplanted head and brain.

DoDo should be firstbigsmile

https://www.cnet.com/news/surgeon-claims-first-human-head-transplant-a-year-away/


I don't see how this would even be possible. The head being being transplanted on the other body would have to be dead...brain dead as well...so how would it work?

Let me explain, si je peux

You will need a head, a body, preferably both at room temperature, a sharp scalpel


Hahaha tongue2

In all seriousness I'm not sure if this is a good idea, were will it stop.

Pros and cons I suppose.
I remember I used to watch the 6 million dollar man, Steve Austin, we're getting to that stage in the not too distant future.

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Sun 04/30/17 01:49 PM
Kind of a crappy news article.
Seems more like gossipy click bait and irresponsible journalism than anything.

Human head transplant less than a year away, surgeon says

That's great.
What do his peers say about his peer reviewed work?

Sergio Canavero has revealed... he's already planning...Sergio Canavero has revealed...Canavero made headlines around the world when he announced...Now, he has revealed...Canavero said...Canavero claims...

Seems it's mostly one guy talking about himself.

The technique was laid out in a 2013 paper

Great! So that led to his methods being reviewed, his experiments duplicated with similar results...?
Nothing in the article.

...other scientists have expressed ethical concerns. New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan said...

Since when does 1 other scientist equate to "other scientists?"
At least have 2.


Seems it would be more responsible "journalism" if they published an article after the guy actually does what he says he can, and/or offers his work up for peer review, and whatever successes can be duplicated.

Otherwise it's just one guy saying something like "In 10 months we'll all have jetpacks and transporters to take us to our house on the moon! I'm a scientist so that means it's true!"


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Sun 04/30/17 01:49 PM






Human head transplant less than a year away, surgeon says

Sergio Canavero has revealed that the world's first human head transplant will take place within 10 months, and he's already planning his next project.
By this time next year, if all goes according to plan, the world's first human head transplant will have taken place, Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has revealed.

In early 2015, Canavero made headlines around the world when he announced that he would perform the ground-breaking surgery within two years. Now, he has revealed in an interview with German magazine OOOM that it's going to take place within 10 months, in China.

The patient will not be previous transplant volunteer Valery Spiridonov, who has a form of spinal muscular atrophy called Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease.

"The first patient will be Chinese," Canavero said.

The Chinese team of doctors will be led by Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University, who in 2014 published his research on head transplants on mice. Ren was also a member of the team that performed the first successful hand transplant in the US, and in January 2016 published as co-author alongside Canavero an article in the journal Surgical Neurology International on the scientific backlash on the procedure.

The technique was laid out in a 2013 paper, involving a procedure estimated to take 36 hours.
Canavero claims to have successfully performed the procedure on a monkey. But other scientists have expressed ethical concerns. New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan said Canavero was "out of his mind," noting that even if the procedure can be performed successfully, we have no idea what effect the chemistry of a new body would have on the transplanted head and brain.

DoDo should be firstbigsmile

https://www.cnet.com/news/surgeon-claims-first-human-head-transplant-a-year-away/


I don't see how this would even be possible. The head being being transplanted on the other body would have to be dead...brain dead as well...so how would it work?

Let me explain, si je peux

You will need a head, a body, preferably both at room temperature, a sharp scalpel


Hahaha tongue2

In all seriousness I'm not sure if this is a good idea, were will it stop.

Pros and cons I suppose.
I remember I used to watch the 6 million dollar man, Steve Austin, we're getting to that stage in the not too distant future.


I agree, I lean more towards it not being a good idea. I watched 6 million dollar man too, but that was using robotics. It's one thing to get a new heart or other organ, or a mechanical arm. But a whole new head? Even if for some miracle it worked, it wouldn't be the same person, it would be the other person. Imagine waking up with an entirely different head and brain (all memories and knowledge of the other person)....do you start to live their life, or the one you used to have?

And it kind of makes me think of the zobbies....a bunch of deformed people walking around with very little brain function, if any.

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Wed 05/03/17 07:31 PM



many misconceptions here

you do not get a head transplant
,,,,it would be a body transplant the head is the controling body part
.....thus since the head is in control the body is the replacement part

wonder if you could get heathybodies from capitol crime committers
instead of excuting them just cut of their heads and put on the guys head
that has the bad body and give the bad body to the criminal

just a thought

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Fri 05/05/17 10:25 AM
Didn't Frankenstein do this first ...



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Fri 05/05/17 10:34 AM
cloning for parts
designer fetuses
gender 'transformation'
and exchangable heads,,

yes, men have replaced God ,, may he help us with whatever 'CREATION' we end up with now....

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Fri 05/05/17 10:37 AM


their plan is to put head DNA in the neck cavity and grow a head... like a Chia Pet... just water it a few times a week.


I grew an extra head but something went wrong. It pukes when it gets too excited.


Maybe it's too saucy Tom? laugh

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Fri 05/05/17 01:39 PM
I hope they can plant Hitler's head on donald trumps body laugh

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Fri 05/05/17 01:45 PM

cloning for parts
designer fetuses
gender 'transformation'
and exchangable heads,,

yes, men have replaced God ,, may he help us with whatever 'CREATION' we end up with now....


I totally agree :thumbsup:

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