Posted on 08/03/2022 12:11:29 PM PDT by 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.
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Well, maybe if this technology works we can stop murdering living people to harvest their organs to feed our obsession with extending life.
Reminds me of H.P. Lovecraft’s “Herbert West–Reanimator”.
Those brought back to life were insane! They kept pistols on hand in case one of the reanimated got loose.
BEAT me to it!
This is actually stunningly good news. Assuming semi-competent management, if that company needs funding, they’ll get anything they need.
“A dozen or so years ago they brought Soros back to life...”
I was thinking of Fauci’s head in a fish tank, living for decades.
On display.
This utopia of ours resembles the novel, That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis.
Good news is God Wins.
I’m guessing that’s what happened to Biden.
Shades of “Coma”!
“Frankenpork”
Excellent comeback!!
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