Head Transplants: Sergio Canavero Is About to Perform the First Human Surgery—and There's Nothing to Stop Him Nov 13, 2017 at 11:41 AM EST ...

Canavero’s team has already successfully performed similar operations on rodents and even larger animals like dogs, but doing so with a living human is an entirely different ethical quandary.

Steve Canavero, who since August has served as the interim state superintendent of public instruction, will oversee the Nevada Education Department as its next full-time chief.

The Italian neurosurgeon says the operation will take place in China within the next 10 months.

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero teamed up with Chinese researchers to graft the head of a mouse onto a rat, resulting in a two-headed rodent.

A controversial Italian doctor announced Friday that the world’s first human head transplant would take place in China.

Dr. Sergio Canavero, the Turin, Italy-based neurosurgeon who plans to complete the first head transplant surgery in 2017, says he has zero involvement with Konami's next game, "Metal Gear Solid 5 ...

The scientist who claims to be about to carry out the first human head transplant says that he has successfully done the procedure on a monkey. Maverick neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has tested the ...

Dr. Sergio Canavero. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images For years, Italian surgeon Dr. Sergio Canavero has been planning to attempt to perform the world’s first head transplant and proposed that it ...

Even so, Canavero’s latest claim that he will revive cryogenically frozen brains makes his notion of a head transplant sound almost reasonable. After all, scientists have performed some tricky ...

An Italian doctor announced on Friday that he will soon perform the world’s first human head transplant in China because medical communities in the United States and Europe would not permit the ...

Sergio Canavero plans to transplant a human head onto another body after he claims he has successfully performed the operation on a monkey with the help of Harbin Medical University.