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BrainBridge Concept Transplant Of Human Head Proposed
BrainBridge is claimed to be a revolutionary concept for a head transplant system.
🚨 The Future Is Here: A Head Transplant Machine? 🤯
— Shining Science (@ShiningScience) November 21, 2025
Imagine waking up one day and realizing the impossible may soon be possible.
A new concept called BrainBridge has just been revealed — and it claims to be the world’s first head transplant system powered by advanced robotics… pic.twitter.com/Wua4P2tR8A
BrainBridge is the world’s first revolutionary concept for head transplant system, employing cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence to ensure successful head and face transplantation procedures with improved outcomes and faster recoveries.BrainBridge will be able to conduct face and scalp transplantation to restore functionality and aesthetic appearance. Younger donor tissues reduce the risk of rejection and enhance appearance, with meticulous suturing and post-operative care to promote healing and minimize scarring.
The BrainBridge Head Band, equipped with a Brain-Computer Interface, allows patients to communicate their needs during recovery, control devices, and execute tasks independently using their thoughts, enhancing autonomy and quality of life.
(Via BrainBridge)
As far as I know, the earliest science fiction novel that describes taking the head off one body and then transplanting it onto another body is Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belayaev (Голова профессора Доуэля by Александр Беляев), first published as short stories in 1925.
Briquet’s head seemed to think that to find and attach a new body to her head was as easy as to fit and sew a new dress. The neck circumference had been measured, and all that remained was to find a corpse with the same neck size.
However, she soon discovered that it wasn’t that simple.
Professor Kern, Laurant and John came to see her in the morning, dressed in white coats. Kern directed his assistants to carefully take Briquet’s head off the glass table and place it facing up to be able to see the entire section of the neck. The head continued to be fed with oxygen-saturated blood through the entire process.
Kern focused on studying its anatomy and making critical measurements.
“While human anatomy is generally very uniform,” Kern said, “every human body has its own peculiarities. Sometimes it is difficult to tell, for example, the exact position of the carotid artery. The thickness of the arteries is not always the same either, nor is the size of the windpipe, even for people with the same neck circumference. There is also much work to be done with the nerves.”
“But then how are you going to operate?” Laurant asked.
“Once you place the neck against the body, you shall cover up your entire working surface.”
“Therein lies the problem. Dowell and I have been working on this issue. We shall have to make a series of lengthwise cuts – going from the center to the outside. It is a very complex work. We shall have to make fresh cuts in the neck’s head and in the neck of the corpse to get to the active living cells. But that is not the main complication. The main thing is to eliminate the products of decay or infection in the body, to clear the blood vessels from the coagulated blood, to fill them with fresh blood and to force the body’s ‘engine’ – the heart to work again. And what about the spinal cord? The merest touch to it causes the most violent reaction, sometimes with very serious consequences.”
“How do you plan to overcome these problems?”
“Oh, it is my secret for now. Once the experiment is successful, I shall publish the entire sequence of bringing someone back to life. Well, that’s enough for today. Put the head back into place. Open the air valve. How do you feel, Mademoiselle?” Kern asked, addressing Briquet’s head.
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