I was on memebase and found this... (not for people easily creeped out, like myself)

[Sir Prize]

Ah yes, the same institute, I believe, had succesfully cut the head of a dog and kept it alive by supplying oxygen and nourishment through tubes. And also constructiong an artificial heart.
They also transferred amother dog year to the neck of another dog. And succesfully hooked it up to the nervous system of dog number two.

This research is the basis for all transplantation today. Had they not made these experiments, then transplantation wouldn't be where it is today, if it had existed at all.