{"id":114668,"date":"2020-10-19T00:25:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-this-year"},"modified":"2020-10-19T00:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:25:48","slug":"worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-this-year","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the primary person to transplant a person\u2019s head onto a deceased donor\u2019s body. Yes, he\u2019s planning on attempting the world\u2019s first caput transplant (or body transplant, betting on how you study it).<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"357\" data-original-width=\"700\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-this-year2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" width=\"640\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In fact, it\u2019s been a few years since his initial proclamation, and therefore the Italian neurosurgeon still stands firm on his declaration, despite claims from other experts that it\u2019s nothing but a PR Stunt (at best) or a hoax. Some have even hypothesized it\u2019s all just a plot meant to push Metal Gear Solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the primary person to transplant a person\u2019s head onto a deceased donor\u2019s body. Yes, he\u2019s planning on attempting the world\u2019s first caput transplant (or body transplant, betting on how you study it). In fact, it\u2019s been a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}