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A head transplant or full body transplant is an experimental surgical operation involving the grafting of one organism's head onto the body of another. In many experiments, the recipient's head has not been removed, but in others it has been.
A brain transplant or whole-body transplant is a procedure in which the brain of one organism is transplanted into the body of another organism. It is a procedure distinct from head transplantation, which involves transferring the entire head to a new body, as opposed to the brain only. Theoretically, a person with complete organ failure could ...
A brainship is made by inserting the disembodied brain and nervous system or malformed body of a human being into a life-support system, and connecting it surgically to a series of computers via delicate synaptic connections (a brain–computer interface). The brain "feels" the ship (or any other connected peripherals) as part of its own body.
The world’s first human head transplant could actually be attempted next year and the medical team has a volunteer. Man from Russia has volunteered for first ever head transplant procedure Skip ...
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Ren Xiaoping (Chinese: 任晓平; born 1961) is a Chinese orthopedic surgeon, and is most well-known for being part of the team that achieved the first hand transplant in China. [1] As of 2016, he was a controversial figure as he announced his intent to perform a human head transplant, an operation that has never been done before. Many ...
Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone HealthSurgeons from NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that they had successfully transplanted two genetically modified pig hearts into brain-dead humans—moving ...