Using a cocktail of chemicals, researchers were able to stop cellular degradation and restore some metabolic activity in pig brains taken from animals at a slaughterhouse. The brains remained, by any traditional definition, dead, but the study suggests that brain cells are hardier than previously thought, and it hints at new ways to preserve brain tissue after damage. The work also raises a suite of ethical questions about the boundary between life and death. |
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