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Academics => Medical Department => Topic started by: LionHart on July 06, 2013, 05:37:12 PM
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The first ever human head transplant is now possible, a neurosurgeon has claimed.
Dr Sergio Canavero believes that the technology now exists that will allow surgeons to carry out the Frankenstein-style procedure, which has been tested out on animals since 1970.
Up until now there has been no way to successfully reconnect the spinal cord, leaving the subjects paralysed from the point where the transplant was connected.
Recent advances have meant that re-connecting the spinal cord is now possible, and it is believed that the breakthrough means that previously fatal diseases could be cured.
However, other experts have dismissed the idea.
Professor Anthony Warrens, from the British Transplantation Society, told the Sun: "Connecting a head to a body is worthless to human beings today. The whole concept is bizarre."
In 1970 Robert White successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto the body of a second rhesus, and Dr Canavero, a member of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, has proposed using a similar method.
He said: “The greatest technical hurdle to such endeavour is of course the reconnection of the donor's and recipient's spinal cords. It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage,” he wrote.
“It is argued that several up to now hopeless medical conditions might benefit from such procedure.”
He believes that it a team of 100 could perform the operation in 36 hours — at a cost of £8.5million.
Both heads would have to be removed at the same time, and reconnected within an hour.
"This is no longer science fiction. This could be done today — now. If this operation is done it will provide a few people with a substantial amount of extra life,” he said. “The only reason I have not gone further is funding."
However, Dr Calum Mackellar, from the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, added: "This sounds like something from a horror movie."
Full Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10154240/First-human-head-transplant-now-possible-neurosurgeon-claims.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10154240/First-human-head-transplant-now-possible-neurosurgeon-claims.html)
-LionHart
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Whoa... Malaking breakthrough kung manyayari nga yan.. imagine, ililipat ka sa katawan na walang sakit.. ang weird ng concept pero bakit hindi pede i try... Hehehe.. thanks for sharing.. karma for u.
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Malaking breakthrough talaga yan, but I would doubt that the society specially religions to accept it.
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I'm going to have a nightmare thinking about this.
Shouldn't it be body transplant instead of head transplant? Our identity is really on the head so you are really changing the body.
Anyway, men should stop doing these things when we're ahead (get it? a head).
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I'm going to have a nightmare thinking about this.
Shouldn't it be body transplant instead of head transplant? Our identity is really on the head so you are really changing the body.
Anyway, men should stop doing these things when we're ahead (get it? a head).
Yes, in early years they attempted a brain transplant, they also called this whole body transplant. I guess transferring the brain itself is pretty traumatic that's why they chose the head instead. Anyway, it'll be a body swap, but I don't really think this would be much focused in humans like the history of cloning. They called it inhumane how much more a head borrowing a body. It's really a potential longetivity in life, if you don't have cancer, neurological disease, it's a possible way subjects may live more than a hundred of years.
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Nakadiskubre na pala sila ng paraan para mapagdugtong ang spinal cord,so kaya na nilang gamutin ang may mga quadriplegia at paraplegia,atleast don may mas benefit kesa mag whole body transplant..lols..
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Could Human Head Transplants Soon Be a Reality?
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http://youtu.be/gzlNoyCUkAM (http://youtu.be/gzlNoyCUkAM)
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nakakapanayo ng balahibo, i mean this is amazing kung totoo talagang pwedeng gawin ito. and it is really a breakthrough
nice article....+1k para sa iyo
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This is scary. Imagine the twisted possibilities that this development unlocks...
Humanity should start thinking about ethics.