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China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes 12-hour landmark surgery in Russia

· By Shi Huang
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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 Eme…

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