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A pig's brain was revived an hour after it died

Allan Rose Hill / 11:41 am PT Thu Oct 24, 2024
image: Julien Tromeur/Shutterstock

Neurobiologists at China's Sun Yat-sen University have revived pigs' brains an hour after the animals died. Sometimes, they were able to keep the brains functioning for hours. The trick was to use the animal's liver as a kind of…

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