SciShow | What That Pig Brain Study Really Tells Us

Written by Date:

Episode Title: What That Pig Brain Study Really Tells Us
Produced by: SciShow
Description: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. This month, in a study that has the potential to change the way we think about death, scientists revealed that they successfully restored some processes in the brains of dead pigs -- at least partially. What did the study actually tell us, and what do these findings mean? Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1099-1 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3929/375 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006899374904788 https://emj.bmj.com/content/24/7/511.short https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1713973 https://www.fasebj.org/doi/10.1096/fj.01-0504com https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01168-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01169-8 Image Sources: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/20119337634/in/photostream/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pig_Brain_in_a_Jar.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Identification-of-Injury-Specific-Proteins-in-a-Cell-Culture-Model-of-Traumatic-Brain-Injury-pone.0055983.s007.ogv https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/brain-in-the-science-lab-gm1071399460-286714076 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/neuron-system-gm937894966-256502519 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/heart-beat-line-end-of-life-gm930392272-255081063 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/pig-anatomy-vector-gm466368012-60398854 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/spooky-zombie-pig-gm156797603-9524970


Click here to view video on YouTube.