transplants
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The Crazy Science Behind A Proposed Human Head Transplant
An Italian neuroscientist who has been advocating for head transplants now wants to make one actually happen. He’ll be announcing a project at a surgical conference later this year. Here’s a human head transplant will work — supposedly.
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The Way Stats Decide Who Gets Organ Transplants In The US Is Flawed
So your doctor has determined that you need an organ transplant. Now there’s some important criteria that will help determine how fast you’ll actually receive that transplant. But is the way the data is crunched actually serving patients as well as it can? Not exactly.
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This Lab-Grown Kidney Can Keep Rats — And Maybe Even You — Alive
For the first time ever, a whole lab-grown kidney has been successfully transplanted into a rat, where it allowed the creature to process urine like a really kidney would. And it could someday save your life.
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Russian Mogul Plans To Plant Our Brains In Robots And Keep Them Alive Forever
The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their human overlords in battle.