China’s head transplant advocate completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia
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In Moscow, joint Chinese and Russian team used groundbreaking tissue fusion technique on paralysed patient, according to the surgeon.

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 Medicine Second Affiliated Hospital and the Russian team working together,” Ren told the South China…

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