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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. frost pist by adhesiv · · Score: -1, Troll

    my first fp, someone pinch me!

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    "Good god people, we would have accepted 'bow-wow' or 'ruff'...Ah! Rough, just the way your mother likes it Trebek."
  2. he is too busy dredging up stories about australia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to give to hemos and cowboyneal to post so that we'll think they accepted the submission. what next michael? some sheep farmer in parrawattadingdong is thinking of driving into munglebungleflimflam for new batteries for his casio calculator? 'slashdot: news for nerds. stuff that matters. oh yeah, and a lot of shit about a mods homeland which nobody gives a fuck about...'

  3. 5th Amendment by Ralph+Bearpark · · Score: -1, Troll

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