Under the Really Creepy News banner-human head transplant is now possible

[BlueToTheBone]

Yikes!
http://qz.com/99413/first-ever-human-head-transplant-is-now-possible-says-neuroscientist/

Technical barriers to grafting one person’s head onto another person’s body can now be overcome, says Dr. Sergio Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group. In a recent paper, Canavero outlines a procedure modeled on successful head transplants which have been carried out in animals since 1970.

The one problem with these transplants was that scientists were unable to connect the animals’ spinal cords to their donor bodies, leaving them paralyzed below the point of transplant. But, says Canavero, recent advances in re-connecting spinal cords that are surgically severed mean that it should be technically feasible to do it in humans. (This is not the same as restoring nervous system function to quadriplegics or other victims of traumatic spinal cord injury.)

more at link.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Old news...

[randome]

7. A movie a-head of its time.

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So then I'm right about being wrong.[/center][/font]
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[Nye Bevan]

2. Why do they keep calling this a "head transplant"? It's a body transplant (nt)

[temporary311]

3. So we're pretty much never

gonna be rid of Dick Cheney, are we?

[Aerows]

4. But why couldn't they reattach

a head to a new body above the part where the injury occurred? In any case, weird.

[HolyMoley]

5. Acckk... Accck... Ack..

Think of the possibilities...

[siligut]

6. The body will still try to reject the head/brain

Until science is able to overcome anti-rejection or the need for immune suppression, unless the body is a perfect match, like a clone, the patient will be on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of his life.