Chinese Doctor Performs Head Transplants On Mice

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday June 7, 2015 @05:46AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Xiaoping Ren, a Chinese surgeon, has performed roughly 1,000 head transplants on mice since 2013 and says that monkeys are next. Some of the mice have lived as long as a day after the operations according to Ren and he hopes to have similar success with primates. With $1.6 million of funding so far, he says, "We want to do this clinically, but we have to make an animal model with long-term survival first. Currently, I am not confident to say that I can do a human transplant."

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Re:A day? by azcoyote · 2015-06-07 06:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe if he just keeps stapling the monkey head onto a new body once a day, the head will be able to live a long and horrifying life.

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Hmmmm ... I got chucked in the loony bin for this! by MarkTina · 2015-06-07 10:46 · Score: 5, Funny

You dismantle the neighbourhood cats and dogs to make yourself a Labrapussy and they chuck you in the nut house .. but if I was a "Doctor" I'd be praised for my work!
Unfair!!!