{
  "id": 16164437,
  "title": "China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/chinas-head-transplant-advocate-ren-xiaoping-completes-landmark",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-23T07:44:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3371900/chinas-head-transplant-advocate-ren-xiaoping-completes-12-hour-landmark-surgery-russia"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}