50 years ago US doctors successfully transplanted a monkey head on a dog

KingCheetah · Feb 10, 2012

I did not know this little fact -- imagine what they're doing today...

I was hoping to see it run around, but was disappointed -- the Russian two headed dog at the end of part two makes up for it though.
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tmoney1101 · Feb 10, 2012

this is how you make a monkey dog.

dharocks · Feb 10, 2012

Through medical science, it is now known that stem cells are capable of specializing into any type of cell found in the human body. In 1998, Fred H. Gage of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, showed that new, functioning neurons are indeed capable of being grown in the human hippocampus. Historically, this was thought to be impossible. The news gives a ray of hope to individuals suffering disabling diseases. Most believe the key to helping individuals whose bodies are incapable of sustaining them is not through arguably crude operations like a head transplant, but through techniques developed through stem cell research. However, the concept of head transplantation may become more popular, as stem cells have been shown by the Wistar Institute of the University of Pennsylvania to repair the severed spinal cords of mice to a functional level. This could mean the subject would no longer be condemned to quadriplegia.

Should the technology to repair the damage to the spinal cord be developed, the possibilities of what a head transplant could accomplish would become endless. A disease such as cancer (non-brain) which afflicts an area of the body such as the lung or bladder, as well as other diseases such as diabetes which affects the pancreas and heart disease, could be cured through the transplantation of the head. People with genetic diseases such as muscle dystrophies whose bodies lose more and more functions over time, eventually leading to death, could benefit greatly from this procedure. These diseases all affect the body but not the head. Should the head be transplanted, these afflictions would be left behind in the old body, while the new body would enable the head transplant donor (not recipient, unless legal identity is carried with the body) to live a longer, healthier life. This would ultimately serve to improve the standard of living for the donors (or recipients) and could potentially double their life spans. Of course, the issue of immune rejection would, however, need to be addressed as always. Ethical concerns might well persist even if function could be completely restored to the patient: a brain-dead person with a healthy body, suitable for head transplantation, would be in great demand as an organ donor. When used as a head transplant recipient, a body which might have prolonged and enhanced several lives is instead used for the benefit of a single person. Such an outcome will be unacceptable to health systems which suffer from a shortage of organ donors, or could suffer consequent to widespread adoption of head transplantation. Using, where possible, the functional organs of the diseased surplus body may partially alleviate this concern.
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Blurr#7 · Feb 10, 2012

So what you're saying is, we could possibly in the near future put Chuck Hayes head onto Jordan Hill's body? Holy crap!!!!

ChievousFTFace · Feb 10, 2012

tmoney1101 said: ↑

this is how you make a monkey dog.

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This is how you make a duck dog.

KingCheetah · Feb 10, 2012

Blurr#7 said: ↑

So what you're saying is, we could possibly in the near future put Chuck Hayes head onto Jordan Hill's body? Holy crap!!!!
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Nothing is unpossible.

jopatmc · Feb 10, 2012

Looks like dat doggy is ducking to me.

DonkeyMagic · Feb 10, 2012

SwoLy-D · Feb 10, 2012

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heypartner · Feb 10, 2012

It's the Courage Wolf mixed with Sleazly Bears that I'm worried about:

robbie380 · Feb 10, 2012

KingCheetah said: ↑

I did not know this little fact -- imagine what they're doing today...

I was hoping to see it run around, but was disappointed -- the Russian two headed dog at the end of part two makes up for it though.
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plcmts17 · Feb 10, 2012

Those crazy Russians. Some of the **** they did back in the day still
makes me think these guys had way too much time on their hands.

heypartner · Feb 10, 2012

It heard it was early stages of a larger experiment to improve upon Man's Best Friend.

After the monkey head stage of the experiment, the next stage was human trials, put a b****es head on the dog...a nagging overweight b**** who can't even make sandwiches but has a cute face and nice Russian, golden locks. The hopes were that she would instinctively lick your balls all day and fetch things for you...for nothing but biscuits.

Jugdish · Feb 10, 2012

Are you aware that I dine regularly with Mexican industrialists? Of course I have seen a Cat-Dog.

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