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The approach is still in the early stages of testing, but initial results from four people look promising, with all showing some improvement 18 months after surgery.

In an interview with the publication of OOOOM, the famous surgeon Sergio Canavero talked about the details of the operation on a human head transplantation, which he and his Chinese counterpart Xiaopeng Wren are going to hold in December. There are plans to "revitalize" the dead people - participants in the Alcor project to freeze bodies after death. Extract the body, cooled in the cryogenic chamber, separate the head and transplant it to the donor body. Kanavero plans already by 2018...

The gut microbes of young killifish can extend the lifespans of older fish – hinting at the microbiome’s role in ageing. 

The team built on this discovery by first removing the plant cells from a spinach leaf, and then demonstrating that it’s possible to use the veins remaining in the leaf structure to transport fluid and small particles, the approximate size of blood cells. In addition to this, they seeded heart cells on the plant scaffold to show that the scaffold can serve as a basis for building heart muscle.