What do you guys think about a body transplant?

what about the spinal cord?

No, we can't reattach the spine.

Is there anybody home?

>Changed his mind

wasn't he going to die anyway? Also, why don't they do more of these with animals before doing it on humans?

redpill me on why this is impossible

physical therapy assistant here, neuro regeneration is complicated as fuck and the italian doctor is basically a fucking idiot. When his story broke his idea was the gag-of-the-day at my hospital. his analogy of the surgery to cutting a banana together and “glue” the neurons together with nerve growth factor is beyond ridiculous. Plus, none of the animals he experimented on survived, so how the hell was the surgery “safe”?

the guy is just a loony

If we did manage to pull that off. Letts just shoot for keeping the brain alive as a paraplegic. The messing with the brain chemistry by attaching it to a strangers spinal column would be a kind of insanity we have never encountered before.

it's an inevitability

Canavero himself states a '50/50' chance of success which is really to say they just don't know, they expect total failure but it will be a learning exercise and will hopefully be repeated until they get it right.

it has probably already been done in secret (just like young blood transfusion has been practiced for centuries and only exploded into popular consciousness in the past few years).

it will hopefully be superseded by mind uploading through whole-brain-emulation before it becomes terribly commonplace.

neo-luddite naysayers will abound in this and any other tech/science/medicine thread.

I don't see how body transplant would fix their paralysis which is no doubt caused by spinal injury. You know to transplant a head you need to sever the spine? And if they somehow could fix the nerves to the head in the transplanted body why not just fix them in the current body and not risk the body rejecting the head.

They did it already successfully on a goat back in the 70s, right? But didn't go with it any further if I remember correctly.

we simply lack the technology to surgically manipulate body parts at the cellular level, structurally neurons are extremely fragile and if you make an incision that destroys any portion of the cellular membrane, neurons are unable to rebuild quickly enough to fix the gaping hole; basically marking the neuron for death by the other neuroglia. The problem is when there is damage to the cells the body’s immune response is difficult to stop and often there is 2ndary damaged caused by the overzealous phagocytes. By making any incision into the spinal cord you’re basically irreversibly cutting the person’s spinal cord in two, and have to suppress their autoimmune response, prevent any possible infects, while pumping them full of neuron growth factors. They’ll also have to constantly monitor and stimulate that person’s spinal cord to make sure they retain their motor and sensory functions. It sounds simple, but to put it into practice is beyond our current technology and understanding. The doctor who wanted to do this surgery is a complete nutcase, or just an idiot.

My bad, it was a brain transplantion

>Give boomers the ability to live forever by stealing the bodies of the young

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If you can do a head transplant, then you can do a spine transplant, or fix nerves. you'd be able to fix them way before you can actually do a head transplant.

It's possible in the sense that theoretically one might be able to keep the head alive on a different body for a few years, but because attaching a new spinal cord is impossible with modern medical science the individual would have no control over that body and would be paralyzed, unable to feel or control anything below the neck

How about full spine, cns head transplant?
We can already replace nerves with liquid metal.
technologyreview.com/s/526946/liquid-metal-used-to-reconnect-severed-nerves/

Interesting, are you a physician?

Scientist have already been able to keep pig brains alive outside of the body. It's in the foreseeable future.

also in theory there are a few pros who with hand of god level surgical skill who could do it.
columbianeurosurgery.org/treatments/nerve-graft-repair/

Just close your eyes and enjoy the ride

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I would love to swap torsos with a child. Kids always want to be treated like grownups, and adults just wanna be kids again. Seems like a good deal.

Yeah, I'm sure it's possible, just amazingly difficult. I think it's creepy, but I'm also not trapped in my own paralyzed body. If I was, I might be game to swap my head to a new one, I'll never know unless I have to make that choice.

Well, if you receive an organ transplant there is a chance your body will reject the organ and lead to complications. So, I would imagine there would have to be a chance that the body would reject the head/brain or visa versa, however that works. Sounds like a good idea for a horror story.

>not just getting a computer and having a reason to shitpost all day

You’d look like soros by the time your body was ready for high school

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they have completely reversed spinal nerve damage using stem cells. The only requirement is that the damage done was not a "tearing" of the nerve tissue. so i would imagine that it's completely possible. Russia kept dogs alive in pieces. I would even go as far as to say they've done it.
bbc.com/news/health-29645760

Based & not homopilled

That's ok, I don't really give a shit about my looks anyway. It's more about health and longevity.

Well I assumed if were talking about a hypothetical body transplant, we'd accept that youd get full CNS functionality otherwise why would you do it?

You would under go a radical hormonal and genetic change. There is no frame of reference for what effects it'd have on your brain.

Fucking useless doctors, instead of doing that they could be searching the solution to manletism

Doesnt your brain regulate hormone levels though? If you could reduce the relevant hormone levels of the body to be transplanted to a base minimum would it be beneficial?

How so?

I imagine it would be something far more severe than that, like someone who got caught in an explosion and lost their legs, a chunk of their spine, most of their skin, and a good number of lower organs. Someone who's just fucked up so badly that piecing them back together's not really an option.

I didnt think about the DNA aspect though. I agree that that could have some very unforeseen complications

I could understand mental problems arising from a completely new body, but ideally you would create a brain dead clone to transplant to. I'm actually going to college to be a genetic engineer and this is one of the goals I have. Fast maturing ubermensch bodies that are grown in artificial wombs. I already have an idea for the semi-organic artificial wombs part.

The eternal boomer strikes again.

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^— This guy knows what’s up.

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Body transplant survivor, ama

y i did it yesterday. i have a superior nigger body now with a superior white mans head

>the karl pilkington defense

Nice

Yes but you would t want to. They did it to a chimp but after a few days it went crazy and they put it down.