The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced in 2015 that he could soon be capable of performing the world’s first human head transplant procedure. This would mean that it would be possible to remove ...

BrainBridge, the world’s first concept for a head transplant system, which integrates advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to execute complete head and face transplantation procedures. This ...

Your brain weighs less than 3 pounds but has the power to move your whole body. That’s because it’s part of your nervous system. Your brain and the spinal cord that runs down your back make up your ...

One of the brain’s biggest benefits from exercise – the birth of new neurons – may not even require any movement. Instead, the beneficial “packages” circulating in the blood after working out can be ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — With other kinds of medical issues — even serious ones — Josh Erdman and Lacey McGuire, a paramedic and advanced EMT with LifeTeam, aren’t focused only on getting a patient to ...

Organ transplantation has come a long way. It's now possible to transplant not just hearts and livers, but functioning uteruses, hands and even faces. But will it ever be possible to transplant a ...

Approaches to achieving radical life extension involve many scientific unknowns. There is uncertainty around whether the different forms of aging damage can be repaired. There is an approach to ...

Receiving an organ donation from a person who died with a primary brain tumor does not appear to carry an increased risk of cancer for the recipient, suggests a UK study than opens up the possibility ...

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