Unbelievable: You Come Back Hours After Death! 

  • 06-Aug-2022
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In a new development, scientists on Wednesday announced that they restored cell and organ function in pigs after death. Sounds unbelievable, right? The technology delivered a specially designed cell-protective fluid to organs and tissues, restoring blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs a full hour after their deaths.

The findings, published recently in the journal Nature, may help extend the health of human organs during surgery and expand the availability of donor organs.
 
All cells do not die immediately, there is a more protracted series of events, said David Andrijevic, associate research scientist at Yale School of Medicine and co-lead author of the study.

It is a process in which you can intervene, stop, and restore some cellular function, Andrijevic said.

The research builds upon an earlier Yale-led project that restored circulation and certain cellular functions in the brain of a dead pig with technology dubbed BrainEx.

In the new study, the scientists applied a modified version of BrainEx called OrganEx to the whole pig. 

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