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Surgeon Says Face Transplants a Reality

Posted by michael on from the slice-and-dice dept.

Aspherical Cow writes "A New York Times Magazine article about how a London surgeon is planning on performing an experimental full-face transplant. The face would be harvested like any other donor organ and used on a disfigured person. Lots of issues of identity come up with something like this, but they say that this won't turn Nicholas Cage into John Travolta."

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  1. like mike by kraksmoka · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    if i could be like mike (i wannabe i wannabe like miiike) like mike, if i could be like mike.

    up above the clouds so high, like i'm sitting in a tree with a child. twinkle twinkle little knife, how i wonder who i are.

    see what happens when you post when you're drunk and struck out at a club!

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    "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel
  2. Re:Correct Link by cybrpnk2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We ran this story (with the correct link and lots of great secondary ones!) yesterday over on Sci-Fi Today. Check us out and get our headlines on your Slashdot home page here.