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First-ever human head transplant is now possible, says neuroscientist
If true, and AFAIK it is, then you could imagine that in 20 years you can have a clone body grown and then just graft your body onto it when your existing body gets too old.
If true, and AFAIK it is, then you could imagine that in 20 years you can have a clone body grown and then just graft your body onto it when your existing body gets too old.
Connection of a spinal cord from the head of one creature to the body of another has never been attempted even in animals, so Canavero’s paper must be taken as an exercise in speculation. However, the severing and re-connection of spinal cords in the same animal has met with limited success in the past. Just this week, scientists at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic were able to restore limited connectivity between the two severed halves of spinal cords in rats.