Brains from slaughtered pigs are partly revived hours after death

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 - 14:40 in Biology & Nature

Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death. The disembodied brains could not think or sense anything, researchers stressed. By medical standards “this is...

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