Researchers have found a way to restore some activity to pig brains hours after death, in a series of experiments that medical and legal experts said could reshape science’s understanding of the brain’s limits. The brains, removed from animals that died in food-processing facilities, were hooked up to a system built by scientists at Yale University that pumped a nutrient-rich fluid through the organ for several hours. Afterward the researchers, who described their findings in the journal Nature, were able to coax cells to...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2019 17:00 UTC