article_snippet.sent: Canavero points to Dr. Robert White, who transplanted the head of one monkey to the body of another at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1970.
article_snippet.sent: one monkey died after eight days, because the body of another rejected the new head.
article_snippet.sent: Before ithe monkey died, ithe monkey could not move because the spinal cord of the head and body were not connected.
article_snippet.sent: one monkey also was unable to breathe on one monkey own.
article_snippet.sent: [It's] a 45-year-old reference in a primate and there is no evidence that the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally," the spinal cord was anastomosed functionally says.