Extreme Regenerative Medicine b4in.org/e43c A recent infographic looking at radical life extension mentioned head/body transplants. Nextbigfuture has looked at that in detail. Surgical Neurological International – HEAVEN: The head anastomosis venture Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage (GEMINI) * a head of a monkey was transplanted in the 1970s but the spinal cord could not be repaired at the time * Spinal cords have been regrown in rats. * In 2000, guinea pigs had spinal cords surgically cut and then protected with PEG chemical (like what is proposed here) and they had over 90% of spinal nerve transmission restored with a lot of mobility and function restored More b4in.org/e43c
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 05:57:21 +0000