Man set for world's first head transplant cancels surgery after falling in love

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Severely handicapped Valery Spiridonov, 33, was ready to have his neck severed by Professor Sergio Canavero - dubbed ‘Dr Frankenstein’ - and attached to a new, healthy body in experimental surgery.

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However, the controversial Italian medic is now working in China where he has received funding for his research while the Russian, who became world famous for his readiness to be decapitated for science, has found his own extraordinary new life. Valery, a computer expert, had worked for two years with Dr Canavero but now accepts that the doctor’s first attempts at the futuristic surgery will now be on Chinese volunteers rather than him. But he also revealed his suspicions that something has gone “wrong” with head transplantation plans that mainstream medicine has decried as currently scientifically impossible. The Russian has now moved to America to the University of Florida where he is studying the computer analysis of emotions.

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