A PIG'S brain has been brought back to life, with functioning activity, nearly an hour after the animal had died. The eerie experiment aims to figure out how doctors can restore brain function to ...

The surprise findings challenge the idea that the brain goes into irreversible decline within minutes of the blood supply being cut off. Thirty-two pig brains were collected from an abattoir.

It might sound like something straight out of Frankenstein's lab. But Chinese researchers have now managed to revive a pig's ...

The researchers were also able to restore brain activity in these pigs up to 50 minutes after blood flow to the brain was stopped. “Our study highlights the crucial role of the liver in the ...

By keeping the brain alive and functioning separate from the body for hours, experts believe that they can improve heart-lung bypass technology. This sci-fi-like concept was first modeled in pigs ...

In 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 ...

Musk's team implanted a chip in the brain of a pig to create a machine interface. Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ...

Chinese scientists say they have restarted a pig’s brain about an hour after removing it from the animal’s body in an experiment that could one day help resuscitate patients after a heart attack.