The project was first announced in 2013, and the man who volunteered for the procedure is Russian Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from the extremely rare, progressive Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. “Canavero initially joked it would be a Christmas present, but now this is becoming a reality. Most importantly, it will happen after the results of our tests […]
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$11mn, 36-hour historic head transplant to be carried out in China in 2017
Frankendoctors now attempting to transplant human heads onto another person’s body; but what happens to the original head?
(NaturalNews) Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has announced that he plans to perform a human head transplant by the end of 2017. He has described a 36-hour surgery in which the head of a brain-dead body donor would be removed and replaced with the still-functioning head of a person with a debilitating disease. The […]
Frankendoctors now attempting to transplant human heads onto another person’s body; but what happens to the original head?
(NaturalNews) Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has announced that he plans to perform a human head transplant by the end of 2017. He has described a 36-hour surgery in which the head of a brain-dead body donor would be removed and replaced with the still-functioning head of a person with a debilitating disease. The […]
Frankendoctors now attempting to transplant human heads onto another person’s body; but what happens to the original head?
(NaturalNews) Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has announced that he plans to perform a human head transplant by the end of 2017. He has described a 36-hour surgery in which the head of a brain-dead body donor would be removed and replaced with the still-functioning head of a person with a debilitating disease. The […]
Coming Soon: Human Head Transplants?
Neither fantasy nor sci-fi, but advanced surgery: human head transplants may be in our near future. The year 2017 may be the year we see the first human head transplant. Dr. Sergio Canavero, a neuroscientist with the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, believes he has mastered the technique […]