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    Commentary: Pig brain study isn't mind-blowing

    by Robby Berman, Los Angeles Times Apr 30, 2019 3 minutes

    It's alive! Like something out of Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein," a group of scientists at the Yale School of Medicine recently tried to revive dead brains from pigs. As reported recently in the journal Nature, by pumping and filtering nutrient-filled fluid through the brains' blood vessels, the scientists managed to preserve some brain cells that were dying and restore some cellular function.

    A technological feat, to be sure. Does this call into a

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