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Chinese professor denies that he and his colleagues successfully performed the surgery

Professor, 56, said he and his colleagues completed the "first surgery model" to match a head, not to have an operation, People's Daily China reported. He made the correction just a few days after Italian professor Sergio Canavero declared Professor Ren and his colleagues for the first time successfully performed a head graft surgery on the corpse during an 18-hour operation.

Professor Ren spoke at the press conference.(Video: Pear Video).

"Recently, our team has achieved an important scientific breakthrough. It is the completion of the first surgery model to transplant a head ," Professor Ren told a news conference on November 20. Harbin Medical University.

Professor Ren is a US-trained dissertation instructor and surgical specialist of Harbin Medical University in the northwestern province of Heilongjiang. According to Professor Ren, his team designed the "pre-clinical surgery model" on the body of a deceased newcomer. They found a solution to help regenerate the spine, a difficult problem in the medical world. At the press conference, Professor Ren turned on a video recording the process of his team conducting a grafting experiment on a mouse.

The surgeon said the dog's spine was severed completely during the experiment, and his team successfully reconnected the spine with the new head using a chemical compound called polyethylene glycol . Professor Ren said the dog could walk after two weeks of surgery and ran after two months. After one year, the results of the experiment seem to be positive. But he also shared that the dog in the experiment could not function completely as normal as other dogs.

When a reporter asked to detail the process of resuming the spine, Professor Ren said the "too intensive" question. "I am not a chemist or pharmacist, I am a surgeon," Professor Ren emphasized. Later, he called on reporters to read a report about the experiment in Surgical Neurology International.

Professor Canavero at the press conference on November 17.(Video: Facebook) .

In a press conference on November 17 in Vienne, Austria, professor and director of Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group announced that Professor Ren had done it on a corpse in China. Professor Canavero said that during the 18-hour process, experts demonstrated that it was possible to successfully resume the spinal cord, nerves and blood vessels of the severed head.

He also announced that similar surgery on living people will soon take place. The group's next step is to perform a swap between the brain-dead donors.

Professor Ren (left) and Professor Canavero.(Photo: OOOM).

Prior to the statement by Professor Canavero, the world's leading medical experts said that the surgical graft was both immoral and dangerous."Unless Canavero or Ren provide real evidence they can perform a pairing, or rather the whole body, on a large animal and recovery animal with full function and better life, if not all of this plan was morally wrong , " said James Fildes, senior research scientist at the Transplant Center, South Manchester University Hospital and research investigator at the Center for Cooperation. Manchester University's infectious research study, confirmed.

"Perhaps more worrisome is that this effort seems to revolve around immortality. But in each case a body is needed to transplant, so one needs to die to serve the surgery. Canavero intends to take Where does the body donate if the goal is to change the natural law? And finally, if the body transplant becomes a reality, Canavero has considered how to deal with the elimination of parts in the first part? What about the elimination of skin, muscles, eyes and brain? I hope this is not just a kind of selfish scientific puppet , " Fildes said.

"Indeed, trying this kind of surgery in the current situation is no different from a crime. As a neuroscientist, I want to assure the public that I or any of my colleagues are thinking of headaches in extreme experiments is difficult to accept is unacceptable , ' said Jan Schnupp, professor of neuroscience at Oxford University.