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An Italian neuroscientist who's been making headlines for months by claiming he is about to perform a human head transplant baffled and disappointed a conference of surgeons Friday, saying he needed American help to pull it off.
Dr. Sergio Canavero has been saying he is on the verge of transplanting a live person's head onto another body. He even has a volunteer: Valery Spiridonov, 30, a Russian computer scientist with a rare, genetic muscle-wasting disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
Medical experts have been casting serious doubts on his claims, but the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons and International College of Surgeons invited Canavero to speak to their joint meeting in Annapolis.
"He's stimulated the whole world," Dr. Raymond Dieter, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and a past president of the U.S. chapter of the International College of Surgeons, told NBC News before the meeting.
"Is it possible to transplant my brain into your body? No," added Dieter.
"Technically, we can cut your head off. We can attach the skin. We can hook up the arteries. We can hook up the nerves. But can you hook up the brain and spinal tissue?"
"I am asking you, Americans, to make your contribution."
Boy that would leave out politicians as they don't have a brain or a spine but still the possibilities are endless...:favorites25:
Dr. Sergio Canavero has been saying he is on the verge of transplanting a live person's head onto another body. He even has a volunteer: Valery Spiridonov, 30, a Russian computer scientist with a rare, genetic muscle-wasting disease called spinal muscular atrophy.
Medical experts have been casting serious doubts on his claims, but the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons and International College of Surgeons invited Canavero to speak to their joint meeting in Annapolis.
"He's stimulated the whole world," Dr. Raymond Dieter, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and a past president of the U.S. chapter of the International College of Surgeons, told NBC News before the meeting.
"Is it possible to transplant my brain into your body? No," added Dieter.
"Technically, we can cut your head off. We can attach the skin. We can hook up the arteries. We can hook up the nerves. But can you hook up the brain and spinal tissue?"
"I am asking you, Americans, to make your contribution."
Boy that would leave out politicians as they don't have a brain or a spine but still the possibilities are endless...:favorites25:
