{"id":70411,"date":"2017-06-16T18:04:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/head-transplant-doctor-reports-successful-repair-of-spinal-cord-in-rats"},"modified":"2017-06-16T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T01:04:02","slug":"head-transplant-doctor-reports-successful-repair-of-spinal-cord-in-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/head-transplant-doctor-reports-successful-repair-of-spinal-cord-in-rats","title":{"rendered":"Head Transplant Doctor Reports Successful Repair of Spinal Cord in Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/head-transplant-doctor-reports-successful-repair-of-spinal-cord-in-rats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A head transplant doctor claims to have made advance toward realizing the medical procedure, but the scientific community remains skeptical. The team claims to have used a proprietary \u201cglue\u201d to repair the severed spines of rats and achieved full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Canavero, a man who has made the goal of his life\u2019s work to transplant a human head onto a donor body, is claiming a success. He and his team have reported seemingly positive results from a technique called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4322377\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Gemini Protocol<\/a>. They used the protocol to repair severed spinal cords in rats, and their findings indicate that their methodology works \u201cacross the board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/head-transplant-doctor-reports-successful-repair-of-spinal-cord-in-rats\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/head-transplant-doctor-reports-successf...d-in-rats\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A head transplant doctor claims to have made advance toward realizing the medical procedure, but the scientific community remains skeptical. The team claims to have used a proprietary \u201cglue\u201d to repair the severed spines of rats and achieved full recovery. Sergio Canavero, a man who has made the goal of his life\u2019s work to transplant [\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-70411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70411","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=70411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}