{"id":176674,"date":"2023-11-24T20:22:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-device-can-keep-brain-alive-for-hours-without-body"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:22:29","slug":"new-device-can-keep-brain-alive-for-hours-without-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/new-device-can-keep-brain-alive-for-hours-without-body","title":{"rendered":"New Device Can Keep Brain Alive for Hours Without Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-can-keep-brain-alive-for-hours-without-body3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Link : <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/DwqJQ8E\">https:\/\/trib.al\/DwqJQ8E<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers in Texas have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body \u2014 a truly weird scientific experiment that recalls <a href=\"https:\/\/futurama.fandom.com\/wiki\/Heads_in_Jars\" class=\"\">the head in jars bit<\/a> in the iconic cartoon \u201cFuturama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team led by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas took two pigs and severed connections between their heads and bodies, instead hooking the brains up to a device they call the extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control (EPCC), which they detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-023-39344-7#Sec1\" class=\"\">paper published in the journal <em>Scientific Reports<\/em><\/a>. The machine keeps blood pumping through the brain, mimicking the natural flow when it\u2019s connected to the rest of the body.<\/p>\n<p>The intent behind this nightmarish procedure<strong> <\/strong>was to study the brain independently from other bodily functions that may influence it, but the system may also lead to better-designed <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/treatments\/24106-cardiopulmonary-bypass\" class=\"\">cardiopulmonary bypass<\/a>, a process in which machines take over your heart and lung function during surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link : https:\/\/trib.al\/DwqJQ8E Researchers in Texas have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body \u2014 a truly weird scientific experiment that recalls the head in jars bit in the iconic cartoon \u201cFuturama.\u201d A team led by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}