Originally published at: A pig's brain was revived an hour after it died - Boing Boing
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So gonna ask the obvious question here, but wouldn’t a person have significant brain damage after an hour with no oxygen?
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I think the intent here was to find a way to preserve brain function for extended periods if the heart stops. I am, however, bothered by the suggestion that the pig passively “died” when it was almost certainly “killed” by the researchers.
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How long until he was back on patrol?
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That’s the beauty of it, the brains are removed at the start of training, and the piggy need not miss a day of work.
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It’s all grunt work anyway.
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so, the finding is liver may help keep brain alive in event of cardiac arrest.
i’m fucked.
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Wait, I don’t think it was about eating liver . . .
If so then I’d def be screwed too.
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Unfortunately I’m reminded of the opening chapter of the novel Distress by Greg Egan, where they have developed limited brain-revival technology and police use it on murder victims to get clues about who murdered them, and a science journalist observes one of the interviews.
“All right, he’s dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”
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Don’t let Trump know about this.
Didn’t we already discuss this a while ago in some thread or other?
I predict the ability to revive a a patient after death from cardiac arrest will be perfected exactly 5 minutes after I’m buried.
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I think that the brain-“gut” connection here is super interesting. That connection is something that we are probably going to keep uncovering all sorts of incredible advances through.
The pig’s torture was a shame.
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Thanks,
In fact, I came here to post this!
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Not without fava beans.
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i wasn’t talking about eating liver, in fact i love it.
i meant that if hope of brain survival relies on a healthy liver…
I’m fucked.
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Sorry to hear that! 
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Deja Vu all over again?
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