Professor Ren (left) and Professor Canavero.(Photo: OOOM.)
In a press conference on November 17 in Vienne, Austria, Professor Sergio Canavero, director of Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that Professor Ren and his colleagues have successfully performed the first human head graft surgery. gender on a corpse in China. And he also announced that similar surgery on living people will soon take place.
Professor Canavero at the press conference on November 17.(Video: Facebook.)
At a press conference held yesterday (November 21), Professor Ren Xiaoping affirmed that he and his colleagues did not have to perform the operation but completed the "pre-clinical surgery model" to transplant the head of the human body. just died. They have found a solution to reconstruct the spine, this is an extremely important scientific breakthrough.
Professor Ren spoke at the press conference.(Video: Pear Video.)
At the press conference, Professor Ren showed a video of the process by which his team experimented with cutting the dog's spinal cord and restoring nerve cells with a cell called Polyethylene glycol.
The surgeon said that after two weeks of the operation the dog could walk and run after two months. After one year, the results of the experiment seemed to be positive, but the dog in the experiment could not function as completely as other dogs.
Professor Ren is a surgeon and dissertation instructor of Harbin Medical University in the northwestern province of Heilongjiang in the United States.