Now you too can Save Spock's Brain!
Dr Robert White "pioneered" brain transplants-- heck, he moved whole heads and slapped them onto other animals. Fast forward three hundred years. Some chicks have taken Spock's brain. McCoy is humming and hawing (What is he? A quack?) Find my blog, download these great techniques and slap in that chunk Vulcan grey matter in Mr. Fancypants! Dr Robert White, Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, believes such operations may be possible one day in the not too distant future. Here he explains why: Read Dr White's guide to performing brain transplants Is human brain transplantation here or is it in the future? There have been experiments in highly developed animals such as monkeys where the brain has been successfully transplanted. In one set of investigations the brain was retained in the skull and the head and transplanted to a new monkeys body successfully. Should this form of operative technology be undertaken in humans? Unfortunatel...