This new discovery is certainly nothing to snort at.
In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, a team of scientists revealed they restored cell activity to 32 pigs' brains after they had been dead for more than four hours. The brains were nowhere nearly fully alive again, but the study still challenges longstanding assumptions of how seemingly deceased brains can be used and studied.
Neuroscience has long maintained that brain function quickly and irreversibly fades once brains have been cut off from oxygen. Читать дальше...