Head Transplants Now "Technically Possible"

[Clinton Huxley]

The game changer is they they are getting closer to repairing spinal cord damage. Only in rats at the moment, mind.

[Audley Strange]

I saw a programme showing a successful face transplant and that was weird enough, especially for the guy's wife who had to get used to looking at someone else's face but with the voice and body of her husband. I am working on the assumption that in all reality, you would only want your head to go on someone else's body because if it's the other way around, then you won't know it's you anyway!! (Unless brain transplanted too). Too weird for me. What if the body and head worked against each other? What I mean is, someone else's body has some sort of "memory" and doesn't agree with what the new brain is messaging it? Oh god, I'll shut up now....

Yeah I don't think it's a case of "honey do you like my new head?" rather "sorry dude, your wife was beheaded and I fancied a go on her stiff. I can't imagine many headless people waiting for a spare one to be fitted.

[JimC]

The game changer is they they are getting closer to repairing spinal cord damage. Only in rats at the moment, mind.

Ratz!

We iz now immortal!

[Clinton Huxley]

The game changer is they they are getting closer to repairing spinal cord damage. Only in rats at the moment, mind.

Ratz!

We iz now immortal!

Your head, Lozzer's body. Banjo optional.

[Audley Strange]

Yes. I take it all back, such things should not be. You are a monster Huxley *begins trashing lab equipment for mankinds safety*

[Clinton Huxley]

Too late, Strange. You can't halt progress.

[Audley Strange]

Damn your eyes man! you'll be curing the peasants of rickets next! what are you some kind of Bolshevik?

[Clinton Huxley]

Bollocks, I've done this one the wrong way round. It's that Ikea bed all over again. Egor, put it in the basement with.....the others......

[FBM]

If they can't repair spinal cord damage from severing of the nerves, then they can't do head transplants.

Using stem cells, they've managed to repair severed spinal cords in mice recently. Even failing that, if you connect the blood supply you could have a living being, albeit paralyzed, until spinal cord repair was perfected.

I'd be temped to donate my body to Stephen Hawking. I'd want partial credit for his/our work, of course.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If they can't repair spinal cord damage from severing of the nerves, then they can't do head transplants.

Using stem cells, they've managed to repair severed spinal cords in mice recently. Even failing that, if you connect the blood supply you could have a living being, albeit paralyzed, until spinal cord repair was perfected.

I'd be temped to donate my body to Stephen Hawking. I'd want partial credit for his/our work, of course.

Anyway, some folks might prefer being a quadriplegic to being dead.

[Bella Fortuna]

[PsychoSerenity]

If they can't repair spinal cord damage from severing of the nerves, then they can't do head transplants.

Using stem cells, they've managed to repair severed spinal cords in mice recently. Even failing that, if you connect the blood supply you could have a living being, albeit paralyzed, until spinal cord repair was perfected.

I'd be temped to donate my body to Stephen Hawking. I'd want partial credit for his/our work, of course.

Anyway, some folks might prefer being a quadriplegic to being dead.

As they said in the article they can reconnect nerves that have been surgically severed - so as long neither the donor nor the person in need of the new body has damage in or around the neck, it should work.

Also why isn't this being called a body transplant?

[Audley Strange]

So would it would be possible to transplant a head onto a rottweiler or would the difference in species cause all sorts of immune response disasters?

[Clinton Huxley]

So would it would be possible to transplant a head onto a rottweiler or would the difference in species cause all sorts of immune response disasters?

Maybe onto a transgenic pig.

[John_fi_Skye]

This is how I'd choose to look: