{"id":56917,"date":"2017-04-28T17:42:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year"},"modified":"2017-04-28T17:42:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:42:48","slug":"this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year","title":{"rendered":"This doctor plans to perform a human head transplant this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sergio Canavero, a controversial professor and neurosurgeon, wants to perform the first human head transplant in December.<\/p>\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ooom.com\/digital\/sergio-canavero-a-revolution-in-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told German magazine OOOM<\/a> that the procedure will take place in China. <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2017\/04\/dr-sergio-canavero-head-transplant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to the Observer<\/a>, it will take 80 surgeons, 36 hours and $10 million to execute.<\/p>\n<p>Like a sci-fi tale come to life, Canavero, who\u2019s also the former director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, claims that people whose brains have been cryogenically frozen could be revived within three years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/28\/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-human-head-transplant-this-year\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPFacebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow&sr_share=facebook\">http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/04\/28\/this-doctor-plans-to-perform-a-...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Canavero, a controversial professor and neurosurgeon, wants to perform the first human head transplant in December. He told German magazine OOOM that the procedure will take place in China. According to the Observer, it will take 80 surgeons, 36 hours and $10 million to execute. Like a sci-fi tale come to life, Canavero, who\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56917","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}