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Sergio Canavero

Health

Inside the mind of the man who wants to transplant human heads

Neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero likens himself to Peter Parker and Victor Frankenstein, and controversially claims that a successful human head transplant is imminent

Features

great war

Health

Broken faces of the Great War

Regulars

Art of auto rickshaw

Technology

Illuminating India: The genius of making a little go a long way

Culture

Heart in operating theatre

Health

Human hearts kept 'asleep' in a box can survive outside the body

News

Hands holding book

Health

From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads

Culture

A hand dangling a breast implant

Health

Breast implants can lessen gunshot injuries by slowing bullets

News

Two women posing for a selfie

Health

Don’t blame Instagram for the rise of botox and lip fillers

Analysis

Brain scan of person with Parkinson's

Health

Pig brain cells implanted into brains of people with Parkinson’s

News

surgeon practising with the new system

Technology

Augmented reality goggles give surgeons X-ray vision

News

Open-heart surgery

Health

Deadly infection spread by contaminated heart surgery machines

To get a new heart valve, patients have to undergo open-heart surgery. But a machine used in such procedures has been contaminating these implants

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