Head transplant surgery used to be a dream that we only saw in science fiction movies such as The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (pictured above). However, CNET … ...

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In what sounds more like the opening scene from a B-grade sci-fi/horror flick, head transplant operations performed entirely by AI-robot surgeons could be coming to a hospital near you within a ...

Dr. Sergio Canavero made global headlines with a promise to perform the world’s first human head transplant. The volunteer, Valery Spiridonov, suffered from a severe muscle-wasting condition and was ...

It seems the new doctor Frankenstein is from Italy, not Transylvania. Dr. Sergio Canavero, former director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said he and a colleague, Dr. Xiaoping Ren ...

Today, it's often possible to prevent immune rejection with cocktails of cutting-edge drugs, enabling even highly immune cell-rich tissue like skin to last decades following a transplant. Scientists ...

But will it ever be possible to transplant a brain?. The answer to that is maybe — but it's a long, long way from happening. And it's not really clear that it would be ethical, even if it were ...

Sergio Canavero is on a mission to perform the first human head transplant, but there have been more than a few legal, ethical, and surgical barriers in his way.

Brain transplants (or at least head transplants) might one day be possible, but medical science is nowhere near doing one safely. Make Yahoo Your Homepage Discover something new every day from ...