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Rabbit with a gray and white face after transplant
(Newsphoto)
Updated: 2005-12-24 11:26
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| Chinese researchers are giving
the gray rabbit an anaesthetic injection as they preprare for an operation
to transplant half the face of a white rabbit to it at a plastic surgery
institute in Xi'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, December 9, 2005.
The rabbit with a gray and white face was shown fourteen days after the
operation at the institute on December 23, 2005. The operated gray rabbit
is currently in normal health condition, able to open and close its eyes
freely. It is the first successful face-transplant operation reported in
China. [Newsphoto] |
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