In radical experiment, scientists restore activity in pigs' brains hours after slaughter

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Scientists restore brain circulation and some cell activity in pigs' brains hours after the animals died in a slaughterhouse. - NBCNewsMACH

In a radical experiment that has some experts questioning what it means to be"alive," scientists have restored brain circulation and some cell activity in pigs' brains hours after the animals died in a slaughterhouse.

"The main implication of this finding is that … cell death in the brain occurs across a longer time window that we previously thought," Sestan said during a news conference yesterday. Rather than happening over a course of seconds or minutes after death,"we are showing that … [it's] a gradual, stepwise process," and that in some cases, the cell death processes can be postponed or even reversed, Sestan said.

Using BrainEx, the researchers studied 32 postmortem pig brains that were obtained from a pork-processing facility . The brains were placed in the BrainEx system four hours after the pigs' death, and were allowed to"perfuse" with the synthetic blood substitute for six hours. What's more, if any type of organized electrical activity — the kind needed for consciousness — had appeared, the researchers were prepared to take action to stop that activity by using anesthesia and lowering brain temperature, said study co-author Stephen Latham, director of Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. In other words, terminating the experiment if this happened.

 

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MACH So, getting juiced back alive sounds real Z-good aye?! Nothing like a horde of walking dead. I don't care who you are. If you get reanimated, I have a Katana , shotgun and .40 caliber waiting. I'm not real sold in bringing dead back to walk around biting everyone.

MACH Interesting. I see a computer analogy coming.

MACH 'if some restoration of brain activity is possible, 'then we would have to change our definition of brain death,' Singhal told Live Science.' If the brain is the center of humanity and consciousness, then you'd have to change the definition of death.

MACH 'Other cells reacted with an inflammatory response when stimulated with certain molecules.' Read, 'We poked it with a stick, and it twitched.'

MACH What about the irreversible brain damage one gets after becoming a liberal?

MACH Muslims new pets

MACH So THIS is how we got PressSec ?

MACH A Brain transplant from a dead person should be posable just need to find a body Could you just imagine transplanting Paulines brain into a muslim body interesting exicise what would she do with her body. Alah backbar pauline.

MACH No. No. No. No. No. No. Can we not make zombies, please? I can deal with vampires, I can deal with werewolves. Go make those with your crazy experiments. NO FUCKING ZOMBIES!

MACH

MACH Stop testing on animals

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