It might sound like something straight out of Frankenstein's lab. But Chinese researchers have now managed to revive a pig's brain, one hour after it was removed from the body. Scientists from the ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, they hooked it up to their resuscitation machine and revived it—to an extent ...

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

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

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 ...

Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface. The woman explained ...

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 ...

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for human transplants.

China has successfully performed the world's first gene-edited pig xenotransplantation surgery for whole liver transplantation in a brain-dead patient, achieving the complete replacement of a ...

The organs will come from genetically modified pigs in the hopes of helping the thousands of Americans waiting for transplants. Also in the news: the world's smallest heart pump, nanoplastics in the ...