A "maverick surgeon" claims to have successfully put one monkey's head on another monkey's body, bringing the doctor one step closer to the first human head transplant, New Scientist reports.

Health Head transplant carried out on monkey, claims maverick surgeon. The plan to perform a human head transplant is on track, says Sergio Canavero, after successful experiments on monkeys and mice ...

This is so probably a hoax, but respectable media are covering it as if it isn’t, so let’s assume that a mad scientist actually did do a head transplant on a monkey. From the Telegraph story ...

News; World news; Monkeys; Monkey 'has successful head transplant' by surgeon plotting same operations for humans WARNING: Graphic picture. Dr Sergio Canavero says he carried out the surgery on ...

The memory of a monkey head transplant he witnessed as a postdoctoral student and the knowledge of what the patient could be facing is too much to overcome. "It looked horrifying," he says of the ...

Head transplant pioneer Robert J White successfully carried out the procedure in 1970, on a monkey that initially responded well but died after nine days when the body rejected the head.

Canavero's purported monkey head transplant did not include any attempt to reconnect the spinal cord, meaning that even if the surgery went off without a hitch, the patient would be paralyzed.

Dr. Jerry Silver can still picture the 1970 day when he stood in the lab as his colleague, Dr. Robert White, transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto the body of another rhesus monkey.

Surgeon Sergio Canavero will be embarking on a project to implement the world's first human head transplant. ... who transplanted the head of one monkey on to the body of another in 1970 ...

Monkey head transplant The head of one monkey was transplanted onto the body of another back in 1970. The resulting monkey couldn't move its body and could only breathe with artificial assistance.

An international team of neuroscientists claims to have successfully carried out a head transplant on a monkey, along with other related experiments. But because the details haven’t been ...

In January 2016, Canavero announced a successful monkey head transplant had been carried out by Ren in China. Images showing the head of a monkey stitched onto another were released, ...