Certain portions of the brain seemed to reactivate, with neurons displaying signs of activity and basic cellular functions ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, ...

The control group had the least brain damage when the pigs' brains were examined. The other, which had not been subject to liver ischemia showed a significantly lower amount of brain damage.

Yale scientists successfully revive cellular activity in deceased pig brains, challenging traditional concepts of death and opening new possibilities.

Towana Looney of Alabama has become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant. The 53-year-old woman passed the ...

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...

In one study published in the prominent journal Nature, scientists were able to restore certain key brain functions of pig brains hours after death. These findings suggest that the brain and other ...

If living cells could be preserved from a dead brain, "why not try to revive the whole organ", they thought. Further studies "achieved stunning results". Parts of pig brains were revitalised after ...

Two brain-dead individuals whose bodies were donated to science received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, as scientists aim to launch clinical trials on animal-to-human organ transplants.

The brains from calves (cows under 12 months old), lambs (sheep under 12 months old) and pigs have been approved for consumption by the Foods Standards Agency, but the sale of cows’ and sheeps ...