Doctors will attempt a head transplant
 

It's exactly what it sounds like.

http://www.businessinsider.com/valer...nsplant-2015-4

Couldn't end up worse than Matt Cassel's QB play

Thats pretty cool. He very likely won't survive the surgery and he probably knows that, but medical science could learn a lot from the attempt.

"So the operation failed, but we learned that you can't ****ing put someone's head on another person's body."

I'm surprised Medevil times didn't prove this with Kings.

http://gfycat.com/BriskImmaterialFluke

Head transplant or body transplant?

Considering his condition basically makes for a long and slow death as your muscles waste away no matter what you do.

I would assume that a relatively quick and painless death from the surgery would be more welcome.

Dunno. The head is facing the rejection risk which suggests a head transplant, but the person is in the head and he's getting a new body which suggests a body transplant.

Brave new ****in' world, guys.

Just wait until we can fix genetic conditions and then 3D print new organs from your own genetic material so very small chance of rejection. The expected human lifespan will grow in multiples in the next half a century.

We should get a handle on the whole overpopulation thing first.

We already know the answer to that. Industrialization. Industrial societies need less humans and less land to generate wealth and feed people. The problems in most areas that are chronically poor are political/social rather than technological.

Not going to happen fast enough.

Patient: Give me head
Doctor: That'll be $11 million

Food supply will take care of that.

ROFL

I assume a successful head transplant would not involve actually being able have any motor function since the spinal cord has to be severed and there's no fixing that as far as I know.

I guess there is a good time to lose one's head.

That has to be the one discovery made that makes this even worth bothering with...

So, Donald Trump will now live on forever

Maybe they can put Alex smiths head on Brays body. To the ship!

No he would be the body donor.

This would be cool if they could actually figure this out, but as others have said you wouldn't be able to move your limbs on your new body could you?

Nope. The guy behind this is a quack. Reconnecting each individual nerve fiber is highly, highly improbable.

This is such a bull shit article. Basically, this guy is taking a 45 year old study done by Dr Robert White in primates that was unsuccessful and using it as his primary evidence. **** this guy.

And the thread title is bull shit. A single Italian doctor who is a ****ing clown is trying to secure funding and an academic center in the US to perform this shit. He has zero chance of that happening.

Sweet. I'll take a 12-inch black guy's.

Wait. I think I misunderstood the thread title. nm

If this had been around when Elvis Grbac was still our starter, things could have been a lot different.

I'm trying to think of a comment but I'm just dumbfounded

I think they actually have done a penis transplant before. I'm not sure and don't care to research it, but I think I remember seeing it as a headline while scanning Yahoo News, CNN, or whatever news site that I was on.

Youre dickless. There is a shocker.

The article was very clear that they would use "biological glue". Any questions you have about whether it will work or not are, therefore, invalid. They have glue. LOL

If they could cure my colon and liver cancer like that, maybe I could get a good night's sleep for a bloody change instead of being up all night with pains and pressure in my lower intestine.

Great idea, until they put it on backwards by mistake.

That's my favorite part of this idea. "Uh, yeah, I'm gonna use super secret glue that nobody knows about. Just trust me on this."

He will be fingerprinted later and life and go to prison for the bodies crimes.

So there is a chance Clay's body could still get a brain in his lifetime.

Out of curiosity, if they could do this, could they put a man's head on a woman's body or vice versa? It seems like there wouldn't be a particular problem atop the normal challenges of a head transplant.

If you were minutes from dying and the only available body was someone of the opposite gender, would you do it? It seems like most people would.

And would different hormones affect either the brain or the body? The gender hormones are in your brain, right? So would they be feeding testosterone or estrogen into the body, and eventually create a sex change to your original gender other than a little surgery on the hardware?

Never going to work at least not in my lifespan...

I know enough about human anatomy and physiology to know we're years away from any kind of surgery like this...

It's also incredibly vain of the surgeon to do this

This is pretty close
http://s-ec-sm.buzzfeed.com/static/e...5992961-18.jpg

If Nicolas Cage does not star in the movie, I will be disappoint.

As the head or the body?