Scientists restore some functions in a pig’s brain hours after death

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 09:02 in Biology & Nature

Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and irreversible nature of the cessation of some brain functions after death, Yale scientists report April 17 in the journal Nature. The brain of a postmortem pig obtained from a meatpacking plant […]

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