On the platform close to the guests of honor stood a large white dog, wagging its tail. From one side of its neck protruded the head of a small brown puppy. As the surgeons watched, the puppy’s ...

The first recorded head transplant was attempted on a dog in 1908, without success. Dr Vladimir Demikhov continued the work in the 1950s when grafting a living head onto other dogs, effectively ...

In a paper published on Monday in the journal Surgical Neurology International, Canavero details the technique used to treat the dog and claims that it will make a human head transplant - or more ...