Are we ready for Frankenstein?

[hh5]

They did young frankenstein as a play somewhere in the us

but nothing beats the original

 

One neuroscientist may soon get the nickname Dr. Frankenstein after making an ambitious claim about a completely novel medical procedure that has many experts’ ‘heads spinning.’

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/02/it-alive-scientist-claims-human-head-transplants-may-soon-be-possible/#ixzz2XuzHEMwI

 

Human head transplants close to becoming reality: Italian scientist  

Sergio Canavero says he has improved on a procedure that has been unsuccessful in animal experiments. Head transplants could be used to treat conditions like muscular dystrophy.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/transplant-human-heads-italian-scientist-article-1.1388169#ixzz2XuyU7chb

 

“It is this ‘clean cut’ [which is] the key to spinal cord fusion, in that it allows proximally severed axons to be ‘fused’ with their distal counterparts,” Canevero wrote. “This fusion exploits so-called fusogens/sealants….[which] are able to immediately reconstitute (fuse/repair) cell membranes damaged by mechanical injury, independent of any known endogenous sealing mechanism.”

 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/07/02/it-alive-scientist-claims-human-head-transplants-may-soon-be-possible/#ixzz2XuzBhfiq

 

 

Edited July 2, 2013 by hh5

[Zombie]

"Human head transplants close to becoming reality: Italian scientist "

 

Um, I think you'll find that's "body transplants" - you really don't want to lose your head

 

 

 

[Sasha Distan]

i don't think ere gonna be there for a really long time, if ever. on the other hand, new ears, eyes, corneas, even new bone, these things are all going well.

[Thorn Wilde]

I see this as an excellent opportunity to start creating real cyborgs. Fuse a real head onto a cybernetic body!

[JamesSavik]

That's FRANKEN-stein!

 

I doubt total head transplants will work. We don't do so well with reconnecting nerves once they've been cut.

 

If you figure that one out there are tons of people suffering from paralysis who would benefit.

[Bill W]

I wouldn't mind having my brain transplanted into a younger body, but who wants to keep an old head?  lol