{"id":89462,"date":"2019-04-12T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-a-body"},"modified":"2019-04-12T07:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T14:22:23","slug":"scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-a-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-a-body","title":{"rendered":"Scientists can now keep brains alive without a body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-a-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists recently revealed they\u2019d successfully conducted experiments on hundreds of pigs that involved keeping their brains alive for up to 36 hours after the animals had been decapitated.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Sergio Canavero, the mad scientist who wants to perform <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2017\/06\/30\/the-curious-case-of-dr-sergio-canavero-and-his-human-head-transplants\/\">a brain transplant<\/a> on a human, isn\u2019t so crazy after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/science\/2018\/04\/25\/scientists-can-now-keep-brains-alive-without-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists recently revealed they\u2019d successfully conducted experiments on hundreds of pigs that involved keeping their brains alive for up to 36 hours after the animals had been decapitated. Maybe Sergio Canavero, the mad scientist who wants to perform a brain transplant on a human, isn\u2019t so crazy after all. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89462","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\/89462","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}