[ExI] head transplant again

[BillK]

On 23 January 2016 at 14:24, spike  wrote:
> There is no mention in the article about this experiment being done a long
> time ago.  Doctors did a monkey head transplant way back in the 60s:
>
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2073923-head-transplant-carried-out-on-monkey-claims-maverick-surgeon/
>


The article does say "Canavero says the experiment, which repeats the
work of Robert White in the US in 1970, demonstrates that if the head
is cooled to 15 °C, a monkey can survive the procedure without
suffering brain injury".
But he did not reconnect the monkey spinal cord.

A South Korean is claiming to have reconnected the spinal cord in mice
transplants.
Until the mice claim, all the head transplants have only used the
replacement body as a temporary life support system. The head could
not operate the new body.

That is the next required step - to reconnect the spinal cord on a large mammal.

BillK