{"id":200558,"date":"2024-12-01T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/doctors-intrigued-by-treatment-that-makes-dead-brains-show-signs-of-life"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:22:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:22:33","slug":"doctors-intrigued-by-treatment-that-makes-dead-brains-show-signs-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/doctors-intrigued-by-treatment-that-makes-dead-brains-show-signs-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Intrigued by Treatment That Makes Dead Brains Show Signs of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-intrigued-by-treatment-that-makes-dead-brains-show-signs-of-life3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science and Technology: This was previously thought to be impossible:<\/p>\n<p>This was previously thought to be impossible:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating a cocktail of preserving agents through a severed pig\u2019s head caused the animal\u2019s brain to show signs of life.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435193-700-the-radical-treatments-bringing-people-back-from-the-brink-of-death\/\" class=\"\"><em>New Scientist<\/em> reports<\/a>, basic cellular functions were restored in the dismembered brain \u2014 something that was previously thought impossible following the cessation of blood flow.<\/p>\n<p>While the pig brain wasn\u2019t exactly oinking at the farm after the treatment, in scientifically significant ways it <em>was <\/em>seemingly brought back from the brink of death \u2014 a ghoulish experiment that could have implications for future efforts to reanimate a dead human brain as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and Technology: This was previously thought to be impossible: This was previously thought to be impossible: Scientists were astonished to find that recirculating a cocktail of preserving agents through a severed pig\u2019s head caused the animal\u2019s brain to show signs of life. As New Scientist reports, basic cellular functions were restored in the dismembered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200558","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\/695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}