Livers , kidney , hearts – all organs that can neglect before the rest of you , yet all organs that theoretically can be replaced . But if your entirebodyfails , well , you ’re passably shit out of fortune .
Until now ! In 2016 , literally anything can and will happen , so it makes sentience that doc who have been devise to execute human history ’s first header transplant are groom their patient for life in a functional body by using virtual reality .
Valery Spiridonovsuffers fromWerdnig - Hoffman disease , a eccentric of spinal muscular muscular dystrophy that shows up in infancy and basically liquidate aside a person ’s integral body . Most tike with it do n’t subsist preceding age 2 , but Spiridonov has survive to 31 year old , despite doctors ' expectations to the reverse .
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But the pitiful fact of the matter is that the disease will vote out him … unless … there were a way … to put hisentire headon a unexampled dead body . That ’s what the HEAVEN / Gemini project hopes to achieve , an ambitious finish that will in all likelihood wipe out the patient anyway . Since no one likes to prepare for failure , doctors are training Spiridonov for life with a working body using virtual realism programs developed by Inventum Biotechnology Companies .
The surgeons lead the procedure , Italian Dr. Sergio Canavero and Taiwanese Dr. Xiaoping Ren , believe that medical technology has boost to the spot at which they can reattach the spinal electric cord and preserve mastermind function in Spiridonov ’s head . The plan is to set about the procedurein 2017 .
Dr. Canaveroclaims to have do the operation successfullyon a monkey and a heel , which are not humans , but it ’s well than nothing . What you ca n’t get up for on monkeys and dog , though , is the human experience of life perched atop a dead body not your own . Spiridonov has no memory of walk , so he ’ll have enormous physical and psychological hurdles to subdue should the procedure shew even moderately successful .
You do n’t need to be a MD to understand that this is an extremely risky subprogram . Even if they reattach the spinal cord , there ’s a risk of exposure of rejection , brain scathe , and infinite other pitfalls that a team of 80 surgeons are stress to look for and avoid .
Some outdoor scientist have criticized Drs . Canavero and Ren forpromoting big scientific discipline , but if you were Valery Spiridonov , and knew your condition would down you , the minute chance of successful , groundbreaking surgical operation might be worth the risk of exposure .
h / t Digital Trends
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