The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Been Successfully Carried Out

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The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Been Successfully Carried Out
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The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China, according to a controversial Italian doctor who said Friday that he and his team are now ready to perform the surgery on a living person.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, chief of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said the operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto a monkey’s body.

The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Been Successfully Carried Out

"The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain-dead organ donors is the next stage,” Canavero said at a press conference in Vienna, the Telegraph of the UK reported. “And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.”

Canavero said the successful transplant by the surgeons at Harbin Medical University shows that his techniques for reconnecting the spine, nerves and blood vessels to allow two bodies to live together will work. Although Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from a muscle-wasting disease, volunteered to become the first head transplant patient, the team has said the first recipient will likely be Chinese, because the chance of a Chinese donor body will be higher.
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weatheriscool wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:38 am The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Been Successfully Carried Out
by Admin on 2:03 PM in Science
The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China, according to a controversial Italian doctor who said Friday that he and his team are now ready to perform the surgery on a living person.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, chief of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said the operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto a monkey’s body.

The World’s First Human Head Transplant Has Been Successfully Carried Out

"The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain-dead organ donors is the next stage,” Canavero said at a press conference in Vienna, the Telegraph of the UK reported. “And that is the final step for the formal head transplant for a medical condition which is imminent.”

Canavero said the successful transplant by the surgeons at Harbin Medical University shows that his techniques for reconnecting the spine, nerves and blood vessels to allow two bodies to live together will work. Although Russian computer scientist Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from a muscle-wasting disease, volunteered to become the first head transplant patient, the team has said the first recipient will likely be Chinese, because the chance of a Chinese donor body will be higher.
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Old story from 2017, and you didn't include a link. Has there been any further progress on this research?
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This stuff is creepy as hell but if progress is to be made in transferring consciousness this is another way to get there.
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how is it deemed successful to swap heads on dead bodies? Like what are the points of failure? They don't get any less dead if you succeed, and they don't get any more dead if you fail. The markers of a successful head transplant should be that the procedure doesn't fecking kill the person it's done on. Even better would be that the bodies ability to self regulate the heart and other autonomic functions, that's a steep ask. amazing success would be the ability to live without life support, and an absolute miracle would be some mobility.

I know taxidermists that can stitch two dead animal heads on the wrong bodies. that's not a successful transplant.
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