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11/26/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Twilight zone: Human head successfully transplanted on a corpse; professor claims the next operation will be on a live human

On the morning of Nov. 17, 2017, Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero made a shocking announcement at a press conference in Vienna. The professor claimed that the world’s first human head transplant was performed on a corpse in China. Led by Chinese orthopedic surgeon Xiaoping Ren, the team at Harbin Medical University managed to successfully reconnect […]

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