{"id":265351,"date":"2024-11-26T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/the-radical-treatments-bringing-people-back-from-the-brink-of-death\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:21","slug":"the-radical-treatments-bringing-people-back-from-the-brink-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/the-radical-treatments-bringing-people-back-from-the-brink-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The severed pig\u2019s head had come from the local abattoir. It would have typically been discarded, but Zvonimir Vrselja<\/a>, a neuroscientist at Yale School of Medicine, and his colleagues had other ideas. Four hours after this particular animal was decapitated, they removed its brain from its skull. They then connected the dead brain\u2019s vasculature to tubes that would pump a special cocktail of preserving agents into its blood vessels and turned the perfusion machine on.<\/p>\n

That was when something incredible happened<\/a>. The cortex turned from grey to pink. Brain cells started producing proteins. Neurons juddered back to life, displaying signs of metabolic activity indistinguishable from that of living cells. Basic cellular functions, activities that were supposed to irreversibly cease after blood flow stopped, were restored. The pig\u2019s brain wasn\u2019t alive, exactly \u2013 but it certainly wasn\u2019t dead.<\/p>\n

Now, for the first time, the team is using the technique on human brains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to be transparent and very careful because there\u2019s so much value that can come out of this,\u201d says Vrselja. Reanimating \u2013 in a sense \u2013 a dead human brain would have tremendous medical benefits. Researchers could trial drugs on cellularly active human brains, leading to improved treatments. Similar techniques are already being used to better preserve other human organs for transplants, too. And in what is perhaps the most immediately useful application, the resuscitation technology involved raises the possibility of saving people on the cusp of death.<\/p>\n

The problem is that it is an ethically complicated undertaking, to put it mildly. And by\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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