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A joint Chinese and Italian medical team have announced they intend to perform a head transplant by 2016/17.
The op will be conducted in China but questions remain about where any body will be sourced from - Chinese authorities have pledged to stop harvesting organs from executed prison inmates but sceptics say they are still taken but just classed as 'donations'.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150911...aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-09-11&dlvrit=65413
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...
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.
The op will be conducted in China but questions remain about where any body will be sourced from - Chinese authorities have pledged to stop harvesting organs from executed prison inmates but sceptics say they are still taken but just classed as 'donations'.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150911...aef&aef_campaign_date=2015-09-11&dlvrit=65413