Controversial Body Transplant Procedure waiting for the right donor

Controversial Body Transplant Procedure waiting for the right donor

“Sergio Canavero set up a team to carry out head transplant (body transplant) procedure in China, working with Xiao-Ping Ren, an orthopaedic surgeon at Harbin Medical University who helped with one of the first hand transplants, in 1999.

“The team in China is ready to roll,” says Canavero, who worked as a neurosurgeon at Turin University Hospital in Italy until 2015. “All the preclinical and clinical studies have been conducted successfully.” Much of this work will not be published, he says, but insists that what will be published “will be more than enough to show where China stands”. The precise date of a transplant attempt depends on finding a donor of the right height, build and complexion, he says. “The problem now is only organizational.”…”

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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/controversial-body-transplant-procedure-waiting-for-the-right-donor.html

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