Pig Brain Kept Alive for Five Hours While Separated from the Body
Pig Brain Kept Alive for Five Hours While Separated from the Body
Disembodied pig brains could be the next great revolution in neuroscience. Find out how scientists kept a pig's brain alive while separated from its body.
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Kinda horrifying but also makes me hope things like this lead to advances in medicine that can allow sci fi shit like a totally body transplant or being able to take the brain out, work on it like a car engine and pop it back in
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As far as I know experiments with dog heads being kept alive were happening in the 1940's, but reconnecting it is still the problem.
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More than dogs, and more than I'd thought. Possibly NSFL, it's cruel.
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I'm pretty immune to fucked up shit, but I didn't like reading that. I also like dogs...
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