Controversial Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero claims that a team of researchers at China’s Harbin Medical University have successfully performed a monkey head transplant.
And now Dr. Canavero has reportedly joined them in the hope doing the same ... on a human.
Italian Doctor Sergio Canavero claims a human head transplant could be successful.
First both patient and donors’ heads are severed.
An adhesive known as polyethylene glycol would then be used to preserve nerve cell membranes.
Spinal cord stimulation could speed a potential patient’s recovery.
A negative pressure device would encourage nerves to connect.
Canavero told New Scientist Chinese researchers who claim to have performed a head transplant on a monkey say the head was cooled to -15 °C without injury to the brain.
The spinal cord was not connected and, for ethical reasons, the monkey was euthanized less than a day later.
Dr. Canavero is seeking money to perform the procedure on 31-year-old Russian man Valery Spriridonov, who suffers from a genetic muscle-wasting disease.
If it gets the go ahead, the operation will take place at hospital affiliated with the university.
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