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Sunday, November 20, 2016

Head Transplant Patient

I'm old enough to remember the controversy about heart transplants. Now they're doing a head. "Body shops" may have a new meaning in the future.

Speaking in Glasgow on Friday, Italian professor Sergio Canavero revealed virtual reality technology that will allow patients to prepare for life after a successful transplant. “This virtual reality system prepares the patient in the best possible way for a new world that he will be facing with his new body,” he explained.

Russian Valery Spiridonov has already volunteered to be the first head transplant patient. Spiridonov has a muscle wasting condition called Werdnig Hoffman disease and is in a wheelchair.

In May, however, Canavero said that a Chinese patient would be the first to undergo the surgery, explaining that Spiridonov could not receive a donor body in China due to biological and ethical reasons.

RT

Wait. The ethical problem is about race?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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