Every time I try to show my mother how to access the internet, she says, "Oh, you can't put a young head on old shoulders." Is that true? Well, it's true for the moment. But give it a year. Two controversial surgeons have partnered up to perform the world's first head transplant on a human being. The operation is slated for Christmas 2017. They have a committed volunteer, a 30-year-old Russian computer scientist named Valery Spiridonov who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease – a progressive weakening of skeletal muscles caused by the loss of anterior horn cells in the spinal column – which he was diagnosed with as a baby, and generally leads to early death. In...
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