Science News. Scientists reanimate dead cells in pigs, a potential breakthrough for organ transplants. The new research challenges the idea that the beginning of cell death is irreversible, though ...
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5 days agoAbout five years ago, Yale School of Medicine neuroscientist Zvonimir Vrselja, Ph.D., and his colleagues shocked the medical community with a groundbreaking experiment. They removed a ...
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (Russian: О́пыты по оживле́нию органи́зма) is a 1940 documentary film directed by David Yashin [] that purports to document Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. The English version of the film begins with British scientist J. B. S. Haldane giving an introduction.
Feb 28, 2024Here, we describe the INSPIRE, an ingestible self-propelling device for intestinal reanimation, which electrically stimulates the intestinal enteric nervous system (ENS) to reanimate intestinal peristalsis ().The device features an expandable design with electrode contacts on its outer surface to make stable contact with the lumen of the small intestine (SI), from which the ENS is located less ...
Jul 2, 2019(When Aldini pressed a conducting rod to Forster's rectum and ear, the muscle contractions "so much increased as almost to give an appearance of reanimation," the scientist bragged.)
Not-so-sci-fi: Could science reanimate the dead? - Drawing inspiration from Frankenstein we consider whether reanimation of the dead is scientifically possible. An Icelandic man received the first-ever double arm and shoulder transplantation in January 2021. During this process, blood vessels and tissues are connected, making it possible for ...
Oct 23, 2024In recent years, scientists have been using pig models to test methods for limiting brain injury. Supervised by physician Xiaoshun He of Sun Yat-Sen University in China, a team of scientists has turned to the animal to try and understand the role of the liver in brain recovery after ischemia due to cardiac arrest.
Nov 26, 2024The severed pig's head had come from the local abattoir. It would have typically been discarded, but Zvonimir Vrselja, a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, and his colleagues had other ...
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