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Nature 446, 476-477 (29 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446476b; Published online 28 March 2007

Chinese network to start trials of spinal surgery

David Cyranoski

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Surgeons agree on guidelines for stem-cell operations.

Earlier this month, around 60 of China's top orthopaedic surgeons and neurosurgeons met at a military hospital in the southwest provincial capital, Kunming. Over three days of discussion and joint operations on two monkeys, the surgeons reached a consensus on how and where incisions should be made to transplant materials in spinal-cord treatment.