Plans for human head transplants move forward

An Italian surgeon who plans to perform the world’s first head transplant on a human says he has succeeded in performing the procedure on a monkey.

Dr Sergio Canavero claims that he performed the shocking experiment at Harbin Medical University in China, and said: “The monkey fully survived the procedure without any neurological injury of whatever kind.”

Describing the procedure, Dr Canavero explained how a team of researchers connected the blood supply between the head and a new body — after the monkey’s head was chilled to -15c.