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Researchers partially revived pig organs after the animals were killed, in a promising experiment

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Researchers at Yale University, using a technology called OrganEx, revived some pig organs an hour after the animals were killed. Experts said the findings were “truly remarkable” and “incredibly significant”. “We can restore some functions of cells, across multiple vital organs, that should have been dead,” said Prof Nenad Sestan. A synthetic blood to carry oxygen around the body, a cocktail of 13 compounds to interrupt the apoptosis (death of cells) and a device to rhythmically pump the fluid around the body were used.

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