30-year-old Russian man volunteers for world's first human head transplant

Dr. Sergio Canavero, of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group (TANG) in Italy, first talked about his arrangements to complete the first human head transplantation in July 2013 - a venture named HEAVEN-GEMINI.

At the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopedic Surgeons' 39th Annual Conference in Annapolis, MD, in June, Dr. Canavero will present redesigned arrangements for the task, tending to a portion of the beforehand distinguished difficulties that accompany it.

Despite the fact that specialists have truly scrutinized the achievability of Dr. Canavero's arrangements, it appears the first human head transplantation is a stage closer to turning into a reality; Valery Spiridonov, a 30-year-old PC researcher from Vladimir, Russia, is the first individual to volunteer for the method.

Spiridonov has Werdnig-Hoffman illness - an uncommon hereditary muscle squandering condition, likewise alluded to as sort 1 spinal solid decay (SMA). The condition is brought on by the loss of engine neurons in the spinal string and the cerebrum locale joined with the spinal string. People with the sickness are not able to walk and are regularly not able to sit unaided.

Spiridonov was determined to have Werdnig-Hoffman illness at 1 years old and told MailOnline that he volunteered for HEAVEN-GEMINI in light of the fact that he needs the shot of another body before he passes on.

'"I can scarcely control my body now," he said. "I need assistance consistently, consistently. I am currently 30 years of age, despite the fact that individuals once in a while live to more than 20 with this ailment."

Giver body will be joined to beneficiary's head through spinal string combination

Dr. Canavero told CNN he has gotten a variety of messages and letters from individuals approaching to be considered for the technique, a large portion of which have been from transgender people looking for another body. Be that as it may, the specialist says the first individuals to experience the methodology will be those with muscle squandering conditions like Spiridonov.

The technique - which is assessed to take 100 specialists around 36 hours to finish - will include spinal string combination (SCF). The head from a giver body will be evacuated utilizing a "ultra-sharp cutting edge" with a specific end goal to constrain the measure of harm the spinal rope maintains.

"The way to SCF is a sharp severance of the lines themselves," Dr. Canavero clarifies in a paper distributed not long ago, "with its orderly negligible harm to both the axons in the white matter and the neurons in the dim laminae. This is a key point."