Head transplant successfully performed on monkey, says neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero - TomoNews

HARBIN, CHINA — A monkey head transplant was said to have been successfully performed at a university in China, said Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero. The experiment was done at Harbin Medical University in China. The researchers connected the blood supply between the head and the new body, but did not connect the spinal cord. “The monkey fully survived the procedure without any neurological injury of whatever kind,“ New Scientist quoted Dr. Canavero as saying. The monkey was kept alive for only 20 h