But can they put TWO heads on one body?
Posted on 04/27/2017 6:18:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
People who have had their brains cryogenically frozen could be 'woken up' within three years, a pioneering Italian surgeon has claimed.
Professor Sergio Canavero, Director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, is aiming to carry out the first human head transplant within 10 months and then wants to begin trials on brain transplants.
If the procedures are successful, he believes that frozen brains could be thawed and inserted into a donor body.
Hundreds of people who are dying or paralysed have had their bodies or brains cryogenically preserved in the hope that medical science will be able to bring them back to life and cure their conditions.
Although many experts are sceptical that huge organs like the brain can be thawed without damage, Prof Canavero said he believes the first frozen head could soon be resurrected.
Speaking to the German magazine Ooom, he said he planned to awaken patients frozen by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation which is based in Arizona.
"We will try to bring the first of the company's patients back to life, not in 100 years. As soon as the first human head transplant has taken place, i.e. no later than 2018, we will be able to attempt to reawaken the first frozen head," said Prof Canavero.
"We are currently planning the world's first brain transplant, and I consider it realistic that we will be ready in three years at the latest.
"A brain transplant has many advantages. First, there is barely any immune reaction,which means the problem of rejection does not exist.
"The brain is, in a manner of speaking, a neutral organ. If you transplant a head with vessels, nerves, tendons and muscles, rejection can pose a massive problem. This is not the case with the brain."
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Cryogenically frozen brains will be ‘woken up’ and transplanted in donor bodies within three years, claims surgeon
But can they put TWO heads on one body?
A brain transplant, eh? I think I saw this movie. Something about pitchforks and torches at the end.
Will never happen. The freezing process destroys the structure of the brain cells. They will never work.
Us guys already have two “heads” on one body...8^))
I hope they don’t get freezer burn.
Always wondered if it was possible wouldn’t the person getting the brain have memories of the donor.
Not going to happen...
HEBREWS 9:27
And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment.
No thanks. I will have been here long enough when I pass the first time.
We already have a large group of Americans with frozen brains. They’re called Democrats! How’s that working out for all of us?
It has been a staple of science fiction writers for decades, the idea of ‘cellular memory’, where a body with a new brain has both sets of memories...................
Some of the heads that have been frozen have actually cracked, or have large crevices in them (that’s what frozen stuff sometimes does...)
Good luck!
Fear no evil.
Then we need to invent the right antifreeze.
Several plants and animals can naturally survive hard freezing with no damage
Heinlein. Good book, kinda kooky at the end, though...........
This claim has been going on now for the last forty years. No one has been revived yet, it is always “just a few more years”.
Meanwhile a few years back, some family members ceased paying for the freezer and found their loved ones unfrozen decaying and rotting.
So, they've found a way to retie it, eh?
What if you never died but are voluntarily frozen using a special process?
Many plants and animals can naturally freeze and come back. Maybe eventually the same idea can be applied to humans
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