An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country.
Ren Xiaoping, who along with Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, hope to attempt the procedure within two years, but only if the preparatory research and tests go according to plan, Ren said.
"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 AFP.
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.
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8 comments:
Wow what a team , this should be a real head banger.
Sort of reminds me of Frankenstein , good luck to the stupid guy who wants this.
These Doctors are really head and shoulders above the rest, and really Using that brain trust noggin. The victim is going in headfirst into this breakthru. But somebodies head will roll if he loses his?
Too bad they didn't start with Obama's head and put it on a pig.
I encourage this. We have many child molesters and lifers that we should test this on. Practice makes perfect.
Wouldn't this be actually a "body transplant"?
This could be the key to living for a couple hundred years. The business of the future will be designing and growing host bodies.
8:41 I thought they had already done something like that with Obama, didn't they put his head on Francis the Mule, making him the perfect ASS ?
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