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So we ask: Does the end justify the means? To Experience in humans saves
completes years in complex scientific experiments. It is an invaluable
shortcut so that you can advance in a year than naturally advance in
decades. This moral dilemma is not easy. That's many medical advances are
unemployed because there is no way to test, because the laws do not allow
it.
the most amazing story on this subject in recent times. Began and ended
with Russian computer expert Valeri Spiririnov, and Dr. Sergio Canavaro.
Valeri suffers a degenerative and incurable disease called "Wernif Hoffman",
the disease is killing him. Dr. Canavaro has offered a solution and Valeri has
accepted, he submit a complex operation, and if all goes well will be held in
2016. Mr. Valeri will be the first man in history to be submitted to transplant
body. Using a donor who suffers cerebral palsy but is healthy.
The last time this was attempted was more than 40 years ago, when a
group of American doctors did a primate, the Chinese did with a mouse. But
then to do with a human there is a long way.
Of course I have fear - says Valeri - Dr. Canavaro has received countless
criticism from the scientific community. The hardest part will cut and paste
the bone of the dorsal spine, but he is confident and says he wants to try
the procedure in 2016. They will have to lead the young to four weeks of
coma for your neck heals correctly. But if all goes well, he will enjoy a new
life in a completely new body.
The operation could cost around 10 million euros and it takes about 20
specialists in the room. What would you do in place of Valeri? Would you let
an operation cut your head and try to be transplanted into another body? Or
you resignaras to die. What do you think?