Authors of the paper are optimistic that they have demonstrated
a successful head transplant technique that assumes substantially fewer risks than those attempted in the past.
The problem has long been one of the major barriers to carrying out
a successful head transplant in animal specimens.
Like the Soviet study from the 1950, Chinese researchers cut the donating specimen at the chest, not the neck, in a technique that may offer an alternative to head detachment for
a successful head transplant.
Not exact matches
Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero likens himself to Peter Parker and Victor Frankenstein, and controversially claims that a
successful human
head transplant is imminent