Head transplant: the operation would have succeeded in a monkey – Why doctor?

Chinese scientists say they have successfully transplanted the head of a monkey on another. Supported by Professor Canavero, he now want to test the technique on humans.

The first head of transplanting a monkey on another monkey was successful! Despite opposition from animal rights associations, the operation has indeed been carried out in China, after the first conclusive rélaisées grafts in mice. The proof that this operation is ready to be applied to humans, the authors of the test.

The office of the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey is the work of Professor Ren Xiaoping, the Harbin Medical University (China), specializing hitherto mouse head transplant …
Once finished, he argues that the monkey was maintained alive for 20 hours, and preserved his brain!

The intervention course was conducted under the leadership of Prof. Sergio Canavero at the origin of this project strongly criticized by part of the medical community . But despite the criticism, the man is still considering the operation as possible in man since 2017! Recently, he even said to have already found a first voluntary patient, Valery Spiridonov, a Russian 30-year-old suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.

And in Vietnam, the country’s largest surgery center (Hanoi) him made a few days ago its support by starting the search for volunteers to undergo head transplants. The director of the hospital still waiting to see if the first is successful …

“This is a real victory for humanity,” said Sergio Canavero in comments reported by Science and Future because “the Monkey is a very close primate man,” he recalled.
Asked by Pourquoidocteur in 2013, the Dr. Marc Leveque, neurosurgeon at the Hospital de la Pitie-Salpetriere (Paris) for his part believed that linking the head to a body functionally impossible “anastomosing spinal cord remains unfeasible for the time.” For this specialist, the speech of Sergio Canavero unfortunately may raise false hopes among para / tetraplegic who claims the Italian neurologist serve

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