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China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes 12-hour landmark surgery in Russia
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a health story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Moscow. The first report grouped here was at 23 Oct 2026, 07:44 UTC. 2 material updates are listed in the timeline. The headline in use is “China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes 12-hour landmark surgery in Russia”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
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 Sklifosovsky Research Institute for…
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China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia
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China’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes 12-hour landmark surgery in Russia
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- South China Morning PostChina’s head transplant advocate Ren Xiaoping completes landmark spinal surgery in Russia