Pig brain tech could spur stroke therapies, drug and target validation

While Wednesday's announcement that Yale researchers restored cell function in postmortem pig brains sheds no light on the feasibility of reviving consciousness, it does suggest new opportunities for stroke treatments, disease models and validation of findings from banked brain tissues.

In a study published in Nature, a team from Yale School of Medicine showed a perfusion system delivering a cell-protective cocktail, dubbed BrainEx, preserved tissue architecture and restored cellular function and metabolism in pig brains four hours postmortem...