China's 'Doctor Frankenstein' is planning the world's first full-body transplant

China's'Doctor Frankenstein' has revealed he is building a team for the world's first full body transplant on a living human being and will operate'when we are ready'. In an interview with the New York Times, Dr Xiaoping Ren spoke about the details for his plan, which involves removing two heads from two bodies and connecting the donor body to the recipient's head. A metal plate would be inserted to stabilise the new neck, while the spinal cord nerve endings would be saturated in a gluelike substance to help regrowth. Earlier this year, Dr Ren shocked the world when it was revealed his team had carried out a successful head transplant on a monkey – and that it lived for 20 hours. Dr Xiaoping Ren has revealed he is building a team for the world's first head transplant on a live human being Although compared to Dr Frankenstein by China's own state media, Dr Ren, who assisted in the first hand transplant in the US in 1999, remains unapologetic in his ambition.