“It’s a technological tour de force.” Researchers restored some basic functions to pig brains hours after death.
The brains, removed from animals that died in food-processing facilities, were hooked up to a system built by scientists at Yale University that pumped a
nutrient-rich fluid through the organ for several hours. Afterward the researchers, who described their findings in the journal Nature, were able to coax cells to...
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