Italian brain surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero project to carry out the world ’s firsthuman promontory transplantnext class on Russian man Valery Spiridonov . While the world watches on with curiosity and horror , him and his team are not bad to turn out they have the scientific know - how to pull off this " Frankenstein - esque " experimentation .
In a series of three paper , recently published inSurgical Neurology International , Dr Canavero and his team outline how their latest developments have allowed them to reconnect the spinal cords of 16 mice and a pawl . They also revealed plans to examine their ideas out through “ electrical inductance ” on impertinent human cadavers .
One of the studiesintroduces itself by enunciate : “ Today , it is most gratifying to declare a series of proof - of - rule papers that will drive out that hysteria once and for all . ”
Much of the research demonstrates the consumption of GEMINI spinal cord fusion communications protocol and polyethylene ethanediol ( PEG ) . GEMINI fundamentally allows less damage to pass during the spinal cord severance , while PEG is a chemical that can reject neural cell membrane . It ’s then reinforce using graphene nanoribbons .
The report , lead by Canavaro ’s confrere C - Yoon Kim , describes how they severed 90 per centum of a detent ’s spinal cord using the refined GEMINI process . After using their new PEG technique , the dog was reportedly back to almost full motor function within 2 week of retrieval .
The paper went on to say : “ Despite these exciting fauna experiments , the proof of the pudding rests in human studies . The only ethical – and expeditious – fashion is to test GEMINI in brain numb organ donors before explantation during a 6 - time of day windowpane during which the electric cord is break up , PEG applied , and motor conduction value distally . ”
A video of the dog walking around after its surgery was also reportedly released , although it has not been made publicly available .
Inanother paper , bid “ HEAVEN : The Frankenstein gist , ” they explicate how human cadaver experimentation are next up on the to - do list . According to a 19th - one C anecdote they mention , a man apply electrical stimulation to three outlaw in Italy who were behead . The story pass that the man could produce muscular contraction in the dead outlaw for up to three minute after death , suggesting that some neural pathways can “ be on ” after destruction .
Much of the scientific community are still skeptical . New Scientistasked 10 experts to gloss on the research , with most not wishing to publicly comment on it . The others were nemine contradicente dubious about the legitimacy of the results and bear on about the researcher ’s hastiness .
“ This work would put them about three or four years from repairing a spinal cord in humankind , ” medical ethician Arthur Caplan at New York University toldNew Scientist . “ It would put them perchance seven or eight from assay anything like a head transplant . ”
