Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has a dream to extend life by swapping someone’s head (or at least their brain) onto a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

A terminally ill man has revealed to Good Morning Britain why he changed his mind about having the world’s first ever head transplant. Speaking from Florida today, Val Spiridonov – who suffers from 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 ...

Last September, Italian neuroscientist Sergio Canavero announced that he plans to be the first surgeon to ever perform a human head transplant after 30-year-old Valery Spiridonov volunteered for the ...

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 ...

Imagine putting a (living) human head on a new body — a "head transplant," if you will. It sounds impossible, like science-fiction or a dream of Dr. Frankenstein's. But for two surgeons, it could be ...