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China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia

Ren Xiaoping, who once vowed to perform the world’s first human head transplant, has operated on a patient’s severed spinal cord in a 12-hour landmark operation in Moscow, according to the Chinese surgeon and Russian state sources. Ren said the procedure was carried out at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine in Russia last week. “It was our Guangxi University of Chinese…

China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia

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