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MORE details have emerged about plans that could see the world’s first head transplant being carried out in China.
Ren Xiaoping, who hopes to attempt the procedure within two years along with Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, said China would be the venue only if preparatory research and tests go according to plan.
“A lot of media have been saying we will definitely attempt the surgery by 2017, but that’s only if every step before that proceeds smoothly,” Ren told reporters.
Canavero, who leads the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, first announced his project in 2013, saying at the time that such a procedure could be possible as soon as 2016.
But this timeline seems extremely unlikely given the numerous obstacles and gaps in knowledge.
The man who has volunteered for the operation is Russian-born Valery Spiridonov, 30, who suffers from Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, which is a progressive and incurable wasting ailment.
Ren said the operation would likely take place at Harbin Medical University in China’s northeast Heilongjiang Province.
He declined to say where a donated body might come from and said that he was unsure if the donor would be Chinese.
Organ donations are not widespread in China as many citizens believe they will be reincarnated after death and therefore feel the need to keep a complete body.
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