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MIT Technology ReviewJan-2-2026, 11:00:00 GMT

Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has a dream to extend life by swapping someone's head (or at least their brain) onto a new body. The Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has been preparing for a surgery that might never happen. Canavero caused a stir in 2017 when he announced that a team he advised in China had exchanged heads between two corpses. But he never convinced skeptics that his technique could succeed--or to believe his claim that a procedure on a live person was imminent. The labeled him the "P.T. Barnum of transplantation." Canavero withdrew from the spotlight.

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