The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China in an 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels. At a press conference in Vienna on Friday morning, Italian Professor Sergio Canavero, director of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, announced that a team at Harbin Medical University had “realized
the first human head transplant” and said an operation on a live human will take place “imminently”. The operation was carried out by a team led by Dr Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto the body of a monkey. Prof Canavero, said: “The first human transplant on human cadavers has been done. A full head swap between brain-dead organ donors is the next stage. READ MORE
