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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. Experimentation in animals began in the early 1900s. As of 2024, no lasting successes have been achieved.
One large rat received the head transplant, and the other provided continuous blood supply to the donor rat's brain tissue. The donor's head's blood vessels were later attached to the recipients.
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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Sergio Canavero (born 1964) is an Italian neurosurgeon known for his controversial claims about the near-term feasibility of head transplantation—the grafting of a head onto a new body—in humans. He made headlines in 2015 when he publicly announced that he would perform such a procedure on a human in two years' time. [1]
The human brain with its lobes highlighted. An isolated brain is a brain kept alive in vitro, either by perfusion or by a blood substitute, often an oxygenated solution of various salts, or by submerging the brain in oxygenated artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). [1]
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 ...
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