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The surprise findings challenge the idea that the brain goes into irreversible decline within minutes of the blood supply being cut off. Thirty-two pig brains were collected from an abattoir.

Musk's team implanted a chip in the brain of a pig to create a machine interface. Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ...

Two brain-dead individuals whose bodies were donated to science received genetically modified pig-heart transplants, as scientists aim to launch clinical trials on animal-to-human organ transplants.