Has the pig brain kept living outside the body?

US scientists say they have recovered the circulatory activity in the brains of severed heads in laboratory conditions, enabling their brains to maintain life for 36 hours.

According to Technology Review, new research achievements of Yale University (USA) scientists have been evaluated to potentially change the definition of death.

Billions of cells in these pig brains are reported to have recovered well.(Photo: TECHNOLOGY REVIEW).

This achievement on the one hand helps scientists have the opportunity to study the brains in intact condition under laboratory conditions with a special level of detail.

On the other hand it also opens up new opportunities for prolonging life if possible from here, scientists found a way to help maintain and prolong the life of human brain tissue in conditions outside the body.

New medical achievements with pig brains described in the recent meeting were held at the US National Institutes of Health as experts discussed ethical issues arising in the context of neuroscience centers of The US explores the limits of brain research.

At this workshop, neuroscientist Nenad Sestan published the achievements of his research team related to the experiment conducted on 100-200 pig brains obtained from slaughterhouses.

The team was able to restore circulatory activity in pig brains with a pumping, pushing system and bags of artificial blood warmed by body temperature.

There is currently no evidence that the pig brain has left the body of the animal has the ability to become aware again, but according to the Sestan researcher, billions of cells in these brain brains have been recorded. Healthy recovery and ability to re-operate as usual.

Mr. Sestan's team submitted the results of this research to a specialized scientific publication to wait for expert judgment and to announce it soon.