Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

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ON A LATE Spring day in 1986, an intern named Sergio Canavero finished his shift at the University of Turin’s Institute of Human Anatomy, housed in a cathedral-like building in the city’s San Salvario ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...