Organ transplantation has come a long way. It's now possible to transplant not just hearts and livers, but functioning uteruses, hands and even faces. But will it ever be possible to transplant a ...

An Italian surgeon says he wants to perform a transplant in the next few years. — -- An Italian scientist has been making headlines after claiming that he believes he will be able to perform a ...

It sounds like pure science fiction—a full head transplant. But behind the headlines, ethical debates, and surgical horror ...

Dr. Sergio Canavero, a neurosurgeon at the Advanced Neuromodulation Group in Italy, is claiming that he is once again on the verge of a live human head transplant, this time in China – despite the ...

An Italian neurosurgeon is claiming that his team has performed the world's first "successful" human head transplant, using two human cadavers in China, according to news reports. The procedure, which ...

In 2015, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite a stir (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor’s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the ...

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Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

Transplanting a human head onto a different body sounds like the plot of a science fiction story. But a surgeon in China named Xiaoping Ren is trying to make head transplants a reality. He even has a ...

As if the moral failures rocking our world were not enough, now comes Italian professor Sergio Canavero to tell us that he will soon be performing the world’s first head transplant. Performing is ...

Scientists have transplanted the head of a rat onto the back of another, ahead of a controversial plan to carry out the world's first human head transplant later this year. In the experiment, ...

Images, which can be seen on Motherboard, show how three rats were used for the operation. One was the donor, the other recipient while the third provided the blood supply between the two. The ...