{"id":17162,"date":"2015-09-12T11:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/11mn-36-hour-historic-head-transplant-to-be-carried-out-in-china-in-2017"},"modified":"2017-04-25T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T07:22:42","slug":"11mn-36-hour-historic-head-transplant-to-be-carried-out-in-china-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/11mn-36-hour-historic-head-transplant-to-be-carried-out-in-china-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"$11mn, 36-hour historic head transplant to be carried out in China in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2015.09\/article\/55f3ed89c3618885648b457f.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian doctor Sergio Canavero, along with his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoping, is set to conduct the world\u2019s first head transplant on a 30-year-old Russian patient suffering from a rare disease. The operation is planned for December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The project was first announced in 2013, and the man who volunteered for the procedure is Russian Valery Spiridonov, who suffers from the extremely rare, progressive Werdnig-Hoffmann disease.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCanavero initially joked it would be a Christmas present, but now this is becoming a reality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Most importantly, it will happen after the results of our tests and additional experiments being confirmed,\u201d<\/em> Spiridonov told RT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/315149-head-transplant-china-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian doctor Sergio Canavero, along with his Chinese colleague Ren Xiaoping, is set to conduct the world\u2019s first head transplant on a 30-year-old Russian patient suffering from a rare disease. The operation is planned for December 2017. The project was first announced in 2013, and the man who volunteered for the procedure is Russian Valery [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45940,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17162\/revisions\/45940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}