and use a new device to keep the brain alive and functioning. The pig brains were all on their own for five hours. And they did just fine, thanks to the new extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory ...

A body, human or otherwise, is made of many components, but the most important is the brain. It serves as the ... surgically separated blood flow to a pig’s head from the rest of its body ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig.

A PIG'S brain has been brought back to life, with functioning activity, nearly an hour after the animal had died. The eerie experiment aims to figure out how doctors can restore brain function to ...

In a medical breakthrough, NYU Langone Health surgeons successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a brain-dead man, who has now survived on the organ for more than a month. “This represents the ...

From Science Alert: The basic life support system involved an artificial heart and lungs to help pump fluid through the brain. For one group, a pig's liver was integrated into the system ...

Doctors say it could lead to more animal-human transplants in the future. Doctors at NYU Langone in New York City announced Wednesday that they have successfully transplanted a genetically ...

Scientists in China made a major breakthrough after reviving a pig's brain activity for almost an hour after death. Physician Xiaoshun He of Sun Yat-Sen University in China and a team of ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

and use a new device to keep the brain alive and functioning. The pig brains were all on their own for five hours. And they did just fine, thanks to the new extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory ...