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Pigs are resurrected, but only partially.
Do scientists have a way to immortality? No. But their invention will increase the availability of natural organs for transplantation.
Scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, working under the direction of Dr. Nenad Sestan, have specialized in reviving the brains of dead mammals. Specifically, pigs, for which they are able to restore metabolism in neurons a few hours after death using a blood substitute.
On August 3, they reported in Nature on the positive results of a broader experiment, using a unique OrganEx system. This apparatus, connected to the circulatory system of an animal that had died an hour earlier, pumped into its blood vessels a fluid containing factors that sustained the vitality of the tissues, ensuring their metabolic and electrolyte balance.
The system provides organs with almost eternal life
The world first heard about Nenad Sestan and his method of reviving the brain on April 17, 2019. Then — also in Nature — he published the results of his experiment with the BrainEx machine, which he used to revive the brain tissue itself four hours after death in 32 pigs.
This time, the scientist decided to test an expanded version of the same device in use and compare it with a traditional extracorporeal blood…
