{"id":26346,"date":"2016-06-01T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:18","slug":"worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero is firm on his promise to deliver the first human head transplant to the world. He says a Chinese man will be the first patient in 2017, and now all he needs is approval and funding. Other experts are highly skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus (to put it mildly) when he vowed to be the first person to transplant a human head onto a deceased donor\u2019s body. Yes, he is planning on attempting the world\u2019s first human head transplant (or body transplant, depending on how you look at it).<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it has been about a year since his initial proclamation, and the Italian neurosurgeon still stands firm on his declaration, despite claims from other experts that it is nothing but a PR Stunt (at best) or a hoax. Some have even hypothesized it\u2019s all just a plot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/head-transplant-surgeon-denies-metal-gear-solid-publicity-stunt-after-conspiracy-theory-link-1498207\">meant to promote Metal Gear Solid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-will-take-place-in-2017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian neurosurgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero is firm on his promise to deliver the first human head transplant to the world. He says a Chinese man will be the first patient in 2017, and now all he needs is approval and funding. Other experts are highly skeptical. Last year, Dr. Sergio Canavero created quite the ruckus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67376,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26346\/revisions\/67376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}