Full Body Transplant: Questions & Discussion

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the concept of full body transplants, exploring the feasibility, implications, and challenges associated with such procedures. Participants express curiosity about the topic and the scientific basis for discussions on it.

Discussion Character

  • Exploratory
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Main Points Raised

  • One participant expresses interest in discussing full body transplants and seeks permission to post questions.
  • Another participant emphasizes the need for citing mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific articles to support any claims made in the discussion.
  • A participant notes their lack of medical background but expresses a desire to understand the possibilities and problems related to full body transplants.
  • One participant asserts that full body transplants are currently unfeasible due to several challenges, including the inability to keep the brain alive without a body, potential damage during brain removal, issues with preventing rejection, and difficulties in reconnecting nerve connections.
  • Another participant acknowledges the need to support future posts with scientific evidence.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the challenges and current limitations of full body transplants, but there is no consensus on the potential for future developments or the specifics of the scientific evidence required.

Contextual Notes

Participants mention various unresolved issues related to the feasibility of full body transplants, including biological, medical, and technical challenges that remain to be addressed.

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Hi there,
I am recently become interested in full bodies transplants. I had a look on the internet and found that it is quite discussed about, so I was wondering if this is a topic that would be ok to discuss onto this forum. If so I will post my questions
thanks
 
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bus said:
Hi there,
I am recently become interested in full bodies transplants. I had a look on the internet and found that it is quite discussed about, so I was wondering if this is a topic that would be ok to discuss onto this forum. If so I will post my questions
thanks

Welcome to the PF.

If you want to discuss it here, then per the PF rules, you will need to cite mainstream, peer-reviewed scientific articles to start the discussion. A list of allowed journals can be found in the Rules link at the top of the page.


EDIT -- here are the links from the Rules:

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http://www.thomsonscientific.com/cgi...cgi?PC=MASTER
 
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oh I see, thanks for that. I don't have any medical background, I just wanted to know a bit more about that, the possibilities and the problems that it would involve, and I thought I could find something here but I understand that I would need to support that with scientific evidence
 
This discussion has been had before, feel free to use the search button on the top right.

Regarding your question no; we are nowhere near ever attempting a whole-body transplant for various reasons. We cannot keep the brain alive without a body, we cannot remove a brain without damage, you'd have to prevent rejection and we cannot reconnect all the nerve connections into and out of a brain (and I'm not sure that people are similar enough for this to work anyway). Off the top of my head those are the biggest and most obvious problems but I'm sure there are a lot more.
 
perfect thanks for that, and I will bear in mind next time I post something to support it with scientific evidence.
regards
 

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