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Friday, 27 April 2018

Brains without bodies

Scientists can now keep brains alive without a body - A team of scientists recently revealed they’d successfully conducted experiments on hundreds of pigs that involved keeping their brains alive for up to 36 hours after the animals had been decapitated. Maybe Sergio Canavero, the mad scientist who wants to perform a brain transplant on a human, isn’t so crazy after all.
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  1. Event Horizon27 April 2018 at 14:06

    Interesting, but not without ethical considerations.
    The (second) thing that comes to mind is an old Steve Martin film... The Man with Two Brains
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