The brain of pigs is the protagonist of this news, very relevant for the future of medicine and organ transplantation.
A new experiment, recreated with the animals that offer us so many varieties of succulent food, could hold one of the keys to future organ donation. It has been in an article published in the prestigious Nature magazine in which we have been able to approach a research which ensures that the team of scientists involved has found a way to preserve and even, partially restore some cells from the body of pigs, an hour later to consummate his death. The possibilities are really fascinating, as this experiment shows us how it could be increase the number of organs that could be donatedeven those that have been partially damaged.
Reviving cells from dead pigs: a further step in the regeneration of animal and human organs
We would have to go back to the year 2019 to find an article in the digital publication Nature in which the foundations were laid for the restoration of brain and cellular functions after death. The term coined by the most profane for this type of cell was that of zombie brain cellsgiven that these had been restored thanks to a mixture of synthetic blood and artificial compounds. These cells allow the brainturned off after death, be active againeven that associated with consciousness.
A new study has managed to resuscitate dead cells in the brain of pigs
Now the same equipment from Yale University has extended the scope from your studio. Previously, brains were extracted pigs and connected to a system called BrainExpassing, at present, to connect the circulatory system with an updated version of said system and called OrganEx. This new system is similar to the one used to keep people with heart or lung problems alive, except that it introduces a secret compound in the body of the deceased animal, which allows limit cell death Y avoid the inflammation of the organism.
The dead pigsin this last experiment, began to be resuscitated one hour later of his death and the surprise came when these animals seemed to show a little spark of lifein addition to showing minor signs of inflammation and bleeding inside. Zvonimir Vrseljaone of the study authors, has assured in statements collected by Gizmodo that:
Similar to the previous study, we have shown that we can restore some cellular functions moments after death.
If you were wondering if we are at the gates of seeing resurrected pigs or zombies between us, this concept does not seem to be on the table, since the experiments were carried out at temperatures that make it impossible brain activitybesides that the pigs were anesthetized Before die. Even though this Advance could be viable in humansat least in the theoryits use seems to be aimed at preserving organs for transplants. Steven Lanthamdirector of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, it states that:
I think we are still far from the application in humans, in the whole body, of this type of experiment. Much more work needs to be done, and much more precision, before we can move in that direction.
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