An hour after pigs’ deaths, an artificial system restored cellular life

https://www.sciencenews.org ^ | Aug 3, 2022 | By Laura Sanders

[Red Badger]

Call it cellular life support for dead pigs. A complex web of pumps, sensors and artificial fluid can move oxygen, nutrients and drugs into pigs’ bodies, preserving cells in organs that would otherwise deteriorate after the heart stops pumping.

The finding, described August 3 in Nature, is preliminary, but it hints at new ways to keep organs in a body healthy until they can be used for transplantation.

In earlier work, scientists built a machine they named BrainEx, which kept aspects of cellular life chugging along in decapitated, oxygen-deprived pig brains (SN: 4/17/19). The new system, called OrganEx, pushes the approach to organs beyond the brain.

“We wanted to see if we could replicate our findings in other damaged organs across the body, and potentially open the door for future transplantation studies,” says Nenad Sestan, a neuroscientist at Yale University School of Medicine.

OrganEx aims to do the job of hearts and lungs by pumping an artificial fluid throughout pig bodies. Mixed in a 1–1 ratio with the animals’ own blood, the lab-made fluid has ingredients that provide fresh oxygen and nutrients, prevent clots and protect against inflammation and cell death.

[OHPatriot]

Is Joey Crappy Pants NEXT in line for this experiment? He does have Covid AGAIN you know.

[Sirius Lee]

In other words, Slow Joe still has a chance to finish his term with a bit of special surgery.

No, I think if only works if the brain stopped functioning recently. gropey's stopped working years ago.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Is this how I get my thyroid med? No wonder it’s expensive.

[I-ambush]

Brainex: I’ve seen that science fiction movie made several times.

[rfp1234]

Gropey, the 8th Dwarf. Good one.

[gibsonguy]

It’s Alive!!

[ToxicMasculinity]

Franken-pig monster. This will not end well.

[Magnum44]

[roving]

How do you think Ruth Ginsburg lived so long

[Noumenon]

Zombie pigs - don’t we have enough in the House and Senate?

[KarlInOhio]

OrganEx aims to do the job of hearts and lungs by pumping an artificial fluid throughout pig bodies.

Worcestershire sauce mixed with the embalming fluid?

[dfwgator]

Worcestershire sauce mixed with the embalming fluid?

[Red Badger]

Granny Clampett’s Rumatiz Medicine.............

[doorgunner69]

Harvey Weinstein and Mike Moore are thrilled.

[Seruzawa]

I’ve already seen “The Reanimator”.

[Vaquero]

The Walking Pork. Good show

[George J. Jetso]

That explains why Nazi Pelosi is still alive.

[Vaquero]

[telescope115]

YOU KILLED KENNY!🤪

[viewfromthefrontier]

C. S. Lewis was a prophet. (That Hideous Strength)