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Surgeons successfully transplant 2nd head onto a rat



A head transplant procedure sounds something out of a horror film, but surgeons have found a way to make it a reality.

A research paper published in the medical journal CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics, detailed an experiment where a head of a smaller rat was successfully attached to the back of a larger one, thus creating a two-headed animal.
The animal managed to live for 36 hours, Mashable reported.

The gutsy procedure, which was done ahead of the world’s first human head transplant later this year, was conducted by a group of Chinese researchers and Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero.

All in all, the delicate operation involved three rats—a donor, a recipient and a third one which was used to manage blood supply to the transplanted head.


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source: technology.inquirer.net/

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