Frankenpig

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Scientists Restore Some Function In The Brains Of Dead Pigs

The image on the left shows the brains of pigs that were untreated for 10 hours after death, with neurons appearing as green, astrocytes as red and cell nuclei as blue. The image on the right shows cells in the same area of brains that, four hours after death, were hooked up to a system that the Yale University researchers call BrainEx.

Stefano G. Daniele and Zvonimir Vrselja, Sestan Laboratory, Yale School of Medicine

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The brains of dead pigs have been somewhat revived by scientists hours after the animals were killed in a slaughterhouse.

The Yale University research team is careful to say that none of the brains regained the kind of organized electrical activity associated with consciousness or awareness. Still, the experiment described Wednesday in the journal Nature showed that a surprising amount of cellular function was either preserved or restored.

The implications of this study have staggered ethicists, as they contemplate how this research should move forward and how it fits into the current understanding of what separates the living from the dead.

"It was mind-blowing," says Nita Farahany, who studies the ethics of emerging technologies at Duke Law School. "My initial reaction was pretty shocked. It's a groundbreaking discovery, but it also really fundamentally changes a lot of what the existing beliefs are in neuroscience about the irreversible loss of brain function once there is deprivation of oxygen to the brain."

The brain is extremely sensitive to a lack of oxygen and shuts down quickly. But researchers have long known that viable cells can be removed from post-mortem brains hours after death, says Nenad Sestan, a neuroscientist at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

 

[Brisketexan 105465]

[Trey3216 15379]

I'll be at the house sharpening my zombie weapons...

[Blotto 23585]

Theres hope for Huckabee Sanders after all.

 

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Edited April 17, 2019 by retread

[Sbbruin 21900]

[Pato del Muerto 52638]

[demos 3012]

You fools. You’ve killed us all.

[El Diablo 4232]

Oh, right Lisa. There's some magical animal that gives us delicious pork chops and bacon and ham and doesn't DIE.

[WhatTheBuck 28814]

We're halfway there. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Sort of related.  Something to look forward to?

When you die ‘you KNOW you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims A new study suggests your consciousness carries on after your heart stops beating

Edited April 17, 2019 by clapclapclap
Is the head dead yet? You know, the boys in the newsroom got a running bet

[ajax 2626]

...does whatever a Frankenpig does

[Trey3216 15379]

11 minutes ago, clapclapclap said:

Sort of related.  Something to look forward to?

When you die ‘you KNOW you’re dead because your brain keeps working’, scientist claims A new study suggests your consciousness carries on after your heart stops beating

Big hitter, the Lama, long...

 

[bamachine 1231]

Feed my, Frankenpig

[Mr.Hovis 71]

1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I once watched Re-Animator and Frankenhooker  back to back. So, close to home and all that.

[Hate 20149]

2 hours ago, Blotto said:

Theres hope for Huckabee Sanders after all.

 

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/forum/17-politics-enter-at-your-own-risk/

 

There you go.

[Blotto 23585]

16 minutes ago, Hate said:

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/forum/17-politics-enter-at-your-own-risk/

 

There you go.

When I have commentary specifically about her political beliefs or actions, I'll keep that in mind. She's fat, she's from Arkansas, so I made a pig joke. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

9 minutes ago, Blotto said:

She's fat, she's from Arkansas, so I made a pig joke. 

To make it bipartisan:  For a long time so was Hillary.

#HamHockHerUp

[Judge Roybeanbag 11821]

Cool that they timed this announcement with the release of the new Pet Semetary.

Edited April 17, 2019 by Judge Roybeanbag

[WhatTheBuck 28814]

1 hour ago, Hate said:

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/forum/17-politics-enter-at-your-own-risk/

There you go.

[phdhorn 6224]

Someone needs to point this thread out to Vic.

[demos 3012]

^^ Vic trying to pull a Jeffrey Dahmer on some of his pof dates?

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

Frankly, I'm just glad I survived day one of the Zombie Pigpocalypse. But I'm not holding out much hope once we have to start facing off against the vampire pigs. Those bastards are bad news.

[Bevo 13605]

Aggie wondering if pig would put up a fight....

[Parliament 14352]

 

[Parliament 14352]

Not if you carry a ccw it isn't.  In fact, I, and my 45 hope to meet that pig in a dark alley.

Edited April 18, 2019 by Parliament

[Armybrat 40940]

Better penetration with Buffalo Bore 9mm....... or with Vic’s dick.

[High Plains Drifter 11054]

On 4/17/2019 at 1:33 PM, Sbbruin said:

 

 

Live damn you live!! WHY WONT YOU LIVE!!!!! (repeatedly strikes monster)

 

Doctor, stop it, you're killing him!

[High Plains Drifter 11054]

16 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Frankly, I'm just glad I survived day one of the Zombie Pigpocalypse. But I'm not holding out much hope once we have to start facing off against the vampire pigs. Those bastards are bad news.

 

That has got to be the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. What the FUCK is that from?

[RPM 26368]

[naija 2869]

Amazing, really, just how much pigs have contributed to medical science.

Give it two decades and this will be the sort of thing used to challenge deceased donor transplants by some aggrieved family

[Sbbruin 21900]

17 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Frankly, I'm just glad I survived day one of the Zombie Pigpocalypse. But I'm not holding out much hope once we have to start facing off against the vampire pigs. Those bastards are bad news.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

That has got to be the most horrifying thing I have ever seen. What the FUCK is that from?

Le Cochon Danseur (English: The Dancing Pig) is a silent, 4 minutes long, black-and-white burlesque film released in 1907 by French company Pathé, apparently based on a Vaudeville act.