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Scientists may have found a new organ in the human head

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...
Popular Science

Human head transplants’ gory, Frankenstein-esque history

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Futurism

This Deranged Plan to Transplant a Human Head From One Body to Another Might Be the Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

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Popular Mechanics

The Head Transplant Doctor Will See You Now

ON A LATE Spring day in 1986, an intern named Sergio Canavero finished his shift at the University of Turin’s Institute of Human Anatomy, housed in a cathedral-like building in the city’s San Salvario ...
Nature

Genetic Insights into Head-to-Body Ratios Via Deep Learning-Based Image Segmentation and Implications for Common Diseases

Head-to-body ratios (HBRs) are important anthropometric traits with direct relevance to human growth, development, and disease risk. However, the role of the proportions between head and body remains ...