http://www.businessinsider.com/valery-spiridonov-head-transplant-2015-4
Don't really have much to add beyond this. It's pretty awesome stuff though. The fact that this is even within the realm of possibility makes the argument for cryonics that much stronger.
I'm very surprised that this has been done with dogs and rats, but as I did expect the nerves did not join and the result is a quadriplegic.
Is it even possible in theory for nerves of two originally different organisms to join? And so many of them?
http://www.businessinsider.com/valery-spiridonov-head-transplant-2015-4
Don't really have much to add beyond this. It's pretty awesome stuff though. The fact that this is even within the realm of possibility makes the argument for cryonics that much stronger.