A disabled man with a fatal muscle-wasting disease is set to become the first person to undergo a head transplant and hopes it could be as soon as next year.
Computer scientist Valery Spiridonov, from Vladimir, Russia, hopes that controversial Italian surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero can cut off his head and attach it to a healthy donor body. As a lifelong sufferer of the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, he says he wants the chance of a new body before he dies.