{"id":73821,"date":"2017-11-17T07:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-a-success-controversial-scientist-claims"},"modified":"2017-11-17T07:02:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:02:28","slug":"worlds-first-human-head-transplant-a-success-controversial-scientist-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-a-success-controversial-scientist-claims","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first human head transplant a success, controversial scientist claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-a-success-controversial-scientist-claims.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>T he world\u2019s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that a team at Harbin Medical University had \u201crealised the first human head transplant\u201d and said an operation on a live human will take place \u201cimminently\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/12112051\/First-head-transplant-successfully-carried-out-on-monkey-claims-surgeon.html\">grafted a head onto the body of a monkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/11\/17\/worlds-first-human-head-transplant-successfully-carried\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2017\/11\/17\/worlds-first-h...y-carried\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T he world\u2019s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels. At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73821","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}