Sentences with phrase «human head transplant»

The Doctor was first introduced at GDC 2013, while Cadavero revealed his plans to perform first ever human head transplant in July 2013.

The internet has blown up this week as its alleged that Konami has modeled a doctor in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain after Dr. Sergio Canavero, a real - life neurosurgeon who wants to perform the world's first human head transplant.

Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero is planning to carry out the first human head transplant in December.

Chinese scientists have transplanted the head of a donor rat onto the back of a host body, creating an equally garish and impressive two - headed rat that may offer insights into the viability of an eventual human head transplant.

Two of the authors on the paper are Chinese neurosurgeon Xiao - Ping Ren and Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, who has received criticism in response to his ambitious plans to carry out the first human head transplant later this year.

The team is blazing a controversial trail towards the first human head transplant, which may come sooner than expected.

While critics of the plan abound, the study lays clear the authors» belief that «this model will facilitate current efforts toward the first human head transplant.»

Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero likens himself to Peter Parker and Victor Frankenstein, and controversially claims that a successful human head transplant is imminent

Not exact matches

(Many scientists have called the project unfeasible and unethical, but last November, two of the co-authors announced to the media that they had performed a head transplant on a human corpse and soon planned to publish details.)

The authors of «HEAVEN: The Frankenstein effect,» note that Aldini ultimately aimed to transplant a human head, using electricity to spark it back into awareness.

This year, computers repeatedly proved they could learn and excel at tasks previously considered to be uniquely human (see «From Pluto fly - by to head transplants — the best stories of 2015 «-RRB-.

Dr. Sergio Canavero is an Italian surgeon developing HEAVEN, a procedure for transplanting the human head.

Seeing heads transplanted between humans and Chihuahuas might have seemed like a funny, surreal sight gag on paper, but it plays out like a mildly horrific turn of events when you see it on the big screen.