Researchers led by a team at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a device that can isolate blood flow to the brain, keeping the organ alive and functioning independent from the rest of the body for several hours.

In an animal model using anesthesia, the researchers redirected the brain’s blood supply through a pump that maintained or adjusted a range of variables, including blood pressure, volume, temperature, oxygenation, and nutrients. The team found that brain activity and other measurements had minimal to no changes over a five-hour period.

Before you imagine a brain in a jar, it’s just a heart-long machine but specifically for the brain.

  • @86dEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    The heads in jars in Futurama being accurate?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•10 months ago

      It’s one of those “they focused too much on what they could do and not enough on what they should do.” There are so many steps between where we are and this monstrosity.
      It sounds like a living nightmare.

      • @86dEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        I agree Krang was always angry at something. Sounds like a quick way to insanity.