Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you could switch your head onto a new body? Well, now it is believed that you can! Actually, it hasn’t been tested on humans yet. Scientists and surgeons have been practicing head transplants on animals, such as mice. None of them ever survived for a long time, though, only a few days. The first head transplant was completed in 1970. However, the monkey that the operation was done on could not walk and died in nine days. *cricket, cricket, cricket.* An Italian surgeon, however, is 100% positive that he can perform the first human head transplant successfully in two years.
Dr. Sergio Canavero (the Italian surgeon) announced the operation he is planning on carrying out on a person suffering from a muscle-wasting disease. Recently, a volunteer was chosen: Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist from Vladimir, Russia, is suffering from Werdnig-Hoffman disease. This is a rare genetic muscle-wasting condition also known as type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). People rarely get past 20 years old with this disease.
Spiridonov, in many articles, states, “Am I afraid? Yes, of course I am,... But it is not just very scary, but also very interesting.” He is not only doing this for the sake of himself, but for the sake of science. There are many steps to the 36-hour process, but a couple of them are to severe the head the neck and fill the body with medicines to prevent the body from rejecting the new head ( probably not in that specific order). Many people quote that Dr. Canavero has gone “nuts.” He says that after Spiridonov, he is perfectly fine with carrying out the operations on "elderly billionaires to get a young body.” Canavero even states that “the final goal is immortality.”
I have given you plenty of information, but if you would like to learn more, you can go explore the internet and/or click on the links below:
-Ajia M.
Dr. Sergio Canavero (the Italian surgeon) announced the operation he is planning on carrying out on a person suffering from a muscle-wasting disease. Recently, a volunteer was chosen: Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old computer scientist from Vladimir, Russia, is suffering from Werdnig-Hoffman disease. This is a rare genetic muscle-wasting condition also known as type 1 spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). People rarely get past 20 years old with this disease.
Spiridonov, in many articles, states, “Am I afraid? Yes, of course I am,... But it is not just very scary, but also very interesting.” He is not only doing this for the sake of himself, but for the sake of science. There are many steps to the 36-hour process, but a couple of them are to severe the head the neck and fill the body with medicines to prevent the body from rejecting the new head ( probably not in that specific order). Many people quote that Dr. Canavero has gone “nuts.” He says that after Spiridonov, he is perfectly fine with carrying out the operations on "elderly billionaires to get a young body.” Canavero even states that “the final goal is immortality.”
I have given you plenty of information, but if you would like to learn more, you can go explore the internet and/or click on the links below:
-Ajia M.