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China-Russia team performs world's first spinal cord transplant

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Ren Xiaoping, a surgeon known for advocating head transplants, has performed a spinal cord transplant in Moscow, Russia. The procedure, which involved replacing a damaged spinal cord segment with one from a brain-dead donor, was a collaboration between Chinese and Russian medical teams. This groundbreaking surgery, utilizing microsurgery and polyethylene glycol to fuse cell membranes, aims to treat paralysis caused by spinal cord trauma. AI

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China-Russia team performs world's first spinal cord transplant

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Shi Huang ·

    China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia

    Ren Xiaoping, who once vowed to perform the world’s first human head transplant, has operated on a patient’s severed spinal cord in a 12-hour landmark operation in Moscow, according to the Chinese surgeon and Russian state sources. Ren said the procedure was carried out at the Sk…

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