• Question: can are brains work in someone else's body?

    Asked by Reece to Adrian, Iroise, Joe, Rachel, Ria on 8 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Iroise Dumontheil

      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      No, at least not with our current scientific knowledge. And I think it won’t be for a while. People who have had a spinal cord injury for example, and who are paralysed, can give you an idea of what would happen if we cut the brain of one person and tried to reconnect it to the body of someone else. The problem is that it is very difficult to fix these connections.

    • Photo: Ria Vaportzis

      Ria Vaportzis answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      To my knowledge, no brain transplant has been conducted so far. That would be a very tough one…

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