Well yes about white, but i was not referring to White, i was referring to the procedure in general and if it had gone mass market like say the heart transplant has gone.
Also have noted that Chris Barnhard was also very keen on the brain transplant. will post those articles the second i get...
Well the cash is certainly not a problem. What would people pay for a home these days? A body is worth far more than a home would be, in fact infinitesimally more. http://www.longevitymeme.org/articles/viewarticle.cfm?article_id=9
The cost of raising a child to age 17 is now $300k, then there...
yes the article doesn't address the matter, howeever it proves that the processes of the body helps to rejuvenate and clean the brain. This is relevant as to where a new young body is provided upon transplant. thus the new body will help the brain take care and rejuvenate itself better.
Days, where did you get 'days' from? no, plenty decades. i will provide the studies on those centurions.
And yes, those conditions are pretty rare, and usually due to the body not being able to support it or simply a bad diet. aneurysms are also solvable, just as many other brain diseases too...
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/18/us/transplant-success-reported-with-part-of-a-mouse-s-brain.html(brain-transplant done in mice, brain links itself up)
http://web.mit.edu/lms/www/PDFpapers/000630whitaker.pdf
(could be grown in scaffolds, although i don't know to what extent, however it is...
an extra 80 years is quite a 'bit' of time. even so, the body is there to help the brain repair itself too, provide a new body and the brain would indeed have more time to fix itself. Or this would buy us plenty time to at least get the neuroscientists and geneticists to figure out new drugs to...
Connecting the blood supply and other organs are already completely possible. It is also possible to keep the brain alive for hours outside the body.
Remaining concern is the spine and the 12(x2) nerves which connect to either side of the brain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranial_nerves
The...