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Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Pig brains partially revived four hours after death
It had been thought that the brain dies quickly and completely when blood supply stops until this new experiment conducted to 32 decapitated pigs (at a slaughterhouse). Though no signals that indicated awareness or consciousness were detected, the presumably dead brains of the pigs showed some signs of response like a normal brain does when special liquid was pumped into at the same pace as the pulse four hours after death.
The finding surprised both science and ethics community. If a brain death was reversed, there could be ways to treat damaged brain functions by Alzheimer disease, a stroke, or oxygen starvation at birth. In the meantime, it could ignite debates as to if brain dead is permanently dead or irreversible. When should life support be terminated? When should organs be donated for transplant?
The recovery or restoration of brain functions could change our definitions of death.
Read the article and learn about this sensational discovery.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47960874
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