{"id":93485,"date":"2019-07-12T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/yale-researchers-revive-cells-in-dead-pig-brains"},"modified":"2019-07-12T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:43:03","slug":"yale-researchers-revive-cells-in-dead-pig-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/yale-researchers-revive-cells-in-dead-pig-brains","title":{"rendered":"Yale researchers revive cells in dead pig brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yale-researchers-revive-cells-in-dead-pig-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YaleNew<\/p>\n<p>In a stunning scientific breakthrough, Yale School of Medicine researchers restored brain activity in pigs that had died hours before. The finding could revolutionize the neuroscience field and how scientists conceive the boundaries between life and death.<\/p>\n<p>By circulating a cocktail of cell-rejuvenating compounds throughout the pigs\u2019 brains, the researchers prevented tissue decomposition and restored some cell function. If replicated, their technique could be used as a model for drug testing and has implications for how scientists understand brain plasticity after traumatic events such as strokes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YaleNew In a stunning scientific breakthrough, Yale School of Medicine researchers restored brain activity in pigs that had died hours before. The finding could revolutionize the neuroscience field and how scientists conceive the boundaries between life and death. By circulating a cocktail of cell-rejuvenating compounds throughout the pigs\u2019 brains, the researchers prevented tissue decomposition and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93485","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\/93485","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}