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Human Head Transplants: Where the Science Stands, and Why the Ethics Are So Complicated
It sounds like pure science fiction. Remove a healthy human head from a dying body, connect it to a different healthy body, and bring "the person" back to consciousness. Equal parts Frankenstein and ...
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What Happened to the World’s First Human Head Transplant?
In 2015, Dr. Sergio Canavero announced plans to perform the world’s first human head transplant on Valery Spiridonov, a paralyzed Russian man. Years later, what actually happened to this shocking ...
*Excuse me one sec, while I attempt to wrap my own securely attached head to this lastest rather scientific occurrence. A neuroscientist in Italy had promised one day he would perform the first head ...
Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...
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