Full-body transplants will be possible within two years, says controversial surgeon Sergio Canavero

The world’s first full-body transplant – in which someone’s head would be sewn onto a donor body – could take place in just two years, according to a controversial surgeon. Sergio Canavero, of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, believes the technique could save the lives of people riddled with cancer or whose nerves and muscles have wasted away, the New Scientist magazine reported.

The operation was carried out on a monkey with a limited degree of success in 1970. The surgeons then did not join the spinal cord so the animal could not move and it lived only nine days until the head was rejected by the body’s immune system.
However Mr Canavero said: “I think we are now at a point when the technical aspects are all feasible.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/fullbody-transplants-will-be-possible-within-two-years-says-controversial-surgeon-sergio-canavero-10071112.html

And another 15-yeas before the FDA gets around to certifying the procedures. Good luck folks...I'll be long gone.

Just because you can do a thing.....doesn`t mean you should



some things are just a bit to far

Original Quill wrote:And another 15-yeas before the FDA gets around to certifying the procedures.  Good luck folks...I'll be long gone.

Thats a Defeatist attitude Q

i plan to live forever (with the same body) :-)

I THOUGHT I recognised the name...

TWO years ago, Canavero announced his plans to proceed with this controversial operation..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant

HE IS certainly one amoral, self-righteous and high handed SOB ~ and as not only is such surgery currently illegal in most countries, and considered unethical by many medical associations and colleges ~ but one also has to wonder just where he intends to conduct his surgery ?

MAYBE somewhere like some poor African nation; somewhere in Central America, S.E. Asia or the Middle East/former USSR without any stable gov't or relevant regulations ~ or maybe in some secret or private location with some billionaire paying for that $12 million plus procedure ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2969375/Could-doctors-REALLY-transplant-head-body-2-years-time-Italian-surgeon-confident-perform-7-5milllion-operation-help-paralysed-patients-like-Christopher-Reeve.html

I remember some years ago Russian scientists grafting a dogs head onto another dog, the pictures shown would have brought tears to your eyes. the look of suffering in their eyes was terrible. I would have cheerfully shot those "Scientists"

All very "Island of Dr. Moreau" very creepy