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Has there ever been any sort of success at a spinal fusion anything remotely like this? In any vertebrate? This is way past crazy.
by readams 11y ago
Has there ever been any sort of success at a spinal fusion anything remotely like this? In any vertebrate? This is way past crazy.
- jasongill 11y agoAccording to the article, yes, repeatedly
- readams 11y agoThe key element of fusing the spinal cord together has never been done.
- jasongill 11y agoFrom the article: "Canavero’s collaborator, Xiaoping Ren of Harbin Medical University in China, recently completed a monkey head transplant. And Canavero’s colleague, C-Yoon Kim of the Konkuk University School of Medicine in South Korea published a study in the journal Spinal Cord showing how his team re-established motor movements in mice whose neck spinal cords had been severed and re-fused."
- Camillo 11y agoArticle says it was done in a rodent.