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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 18: Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero gives a press conference on November 18, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero is set to announce more details about his controversial head transplant surgery at a medical conference in Glasgow tomorrow. The Doctor wishes to carry out the operation in 2017 and believes it could lead to people who have been paralysed from the neck down to being able to walk again. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 18:  Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero gives a press conference on November 18, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero is set to announce more details about his controversial head transplant surgery at a medical conference in Glasgow tomorrow. The Doctor wishes to carry out the operation in 2017 and believes it could lead to people who have been paralysed from the neck down to being able to walk again.  (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)