Miracle: Dead 4-hour pig brain is revived

Researchers claim to have restored the function of a dead pig's brain for four hours, promising new solutions for humans.

Scientists have restored the function of dead pig brain cells for 4 hours.

Many of the basic functions of brain cells have restarted after 4 hours.

"This finding has brought a different perspective, compared to the long-held view, that it is impossible to reverse the post-death brain function stop ," said Yale University scientists.

To do the research, scientists took pig brains from a pig that died in the slaughterhouse. They put pig brains into a chemical compound.

Soon after, many basic functions of brain cells, which stopped as soon as the blood and oxygen stopped flowing to the brain, became active after 4 hours.

However, the team emphasized that the pig's brain in the experiment did not produce a signal that showed normal brain function.

'We do not detect signals related to awareness or consciousness,' said researcher Zvonimir Vrselja from Yale University. 'In other words, this is not a living brain, but the brain cells are working again.'

Research has yet to produce immediate clinical applications, but the finding promises to open up scientists to restore brain function of stroke patients or try brain injury after trauma. , the study said.

The study's co-author Andrea Beckel-Mitchener said 'discovery could bring about a whole new way of studying the brain after death'.

New research is published in the British scientific journal Nature.

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