融合性神经外科手术让瘫痪猪重新行走——人类会是下一个吗？

‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are humans next? Helen Thomson finds that a new technique to re-fuse pig spinal cords is stirring controversial ideas about head transplants MORE than 15 million people live with a spinal cord injury. With so few effective treatments, my interest was piqued when I saw a recent paper reporting that a new intervention had allowed pigs with severed spinal cords to walk again. The feat was performed by a team led by Michael Lebenstein-Gumovski at the Sklifosovsky Institute for Emergency Medicine in Russia. The paper also has editorial contributions from neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero, who claimed in 2015 that human head transplants were just two years away. …