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Chinese Surgeon Who Has Performed 1,000 Head Transplants On MIce Wants To Create The First Head-Transplanted Monkey That Can Live ‘At Least For A Little While’
Not content with having created over 1,000 hybrid mice with different heads, some a different colour from their bodies, controversial doctor Xiaoping Ren next wants to perform pioneering transplants on primates.
Shadowing him during a 10-hour operation, the Wall Street Journal witnessed a mouse with a new head move and breathe on its own following the procedure, even opening its eyes and drinking.
That being said, none of Dr Ren’s transplanted mice have as yet lived longer than a few minutes.
(Picture: Dr. Xiaoping Ren/WSJ)
(Picture: Dr Xiaoping Ren/WSJ)
He claims to be perfecting the procedure however, using tiny tubes to carry oxygenated blood from the brains to their new bodies, and will next try it out on primates (there are already plans for it up on his wall).
According to WSJ, he is hoping the primates will live, ‘at least for a little while.’
Dr Ren claims his work isn’t frivolous, likened it to previous concerns about now more commonplace hand transplants, and claimed his research might one day be able to help human patients who have healthy heads but have suffered spinal-cord injuries or muscle-wasting diseases.
Head transplants are hugely controversial however, raising ethical concerns and challenging the very idea of consciousness.
The article Chinese Surgeon Who Has Performed 1,000 Head Transplants On MIce Wants To Create The First Head-Transplanted Monkey That Can Live ‘At Least For A Little While’ published by TheSleuthJournal – Real News Without Synthetics
Source: https://www.thesleuthjournal.com/chinese-surgeon-who-has-performed-1000-head-transplants-on-mice-wants-to-create-the-first-head-transplanted-monkey-that-can-live-at-least-for-a-little-while/
