{"id":89631,"date":"2019-04-17T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-restore-some-functions-in-a-pigs-brain-hours-after-it-died"},"modified":"2019-04-17T14:36:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T21:36:10","slug":"scientists-restore-some-functions-in-a-pigs-brain-hours-after-it-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-restore-some-functions-in-a-pigs-brain-hours-after-it-died","title":{"rendered":"Scientists restore some functions in a pig\u2019s BRAIN hours after it died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9xyYaww4wn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists bring some functions in a pig\u2019s BRAIN \u2018back to life\u2019 \u2014 four hours after the farm animal died\u201e.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have been able to partially revive the brains of decapitated pigs that died four hours earlier in a groundbreaking study.<\/p>\n<p>Experts used tubes that pumped a chemical mixture designed to mimic blood into the decapitated heads of 32 pigs to restore circulation and cellular activity.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing Mary Shelley\u2019s classic novel Frankenstein, billions of neurons began acting normally and the deaths of other cells was reduced over the course of six hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6932171\/FrankenSWINE-Scientists-bring-functions-pigs-BRAIN-life.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6932171\/FrankenSWINE-Scientists-bring-functions-pigs-BRAIN-life.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6932171\/FrankenSWINE-Scientists-bring-functions-pigs-BRAIN-life.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6932171\/FrankenSWINE-Scientists-bring-functions-pigs-BRAIN-life.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists bring some functions in a pig\u2019s BRAIN \u2018back to life\u2019 \u2014 four hours after the farm animal died\u201e. Scientists have been able to partially revive the brains of decapitated pigs that died four hours earlier in a groundbreaking study. Experts used tubes that pumped a chemical mixture designed to mimic blood into the decapitated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89631","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89649,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89631\/revisions\/89649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}