<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">The scientists involved said they were worried about the brain becoming conscious 4 hours after the pigs were killed in a slaughterhouse, so in the solution they pumped through the brain that provided oxygen sugars and other nutrients they included a drug that inhibits organized 3D brain activity. And they employed a bioethicist ready to administer an anesthetic if they saw any sign of consciousness, which they didn't. Nobody knows what would have happened if the inhibiting drug had not been used. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">So although there was no sign of organized brain activity (and you wouldn't expect to find any with that inhibiting drug used) the individual cells regained metabolic activity and in the case of neurons electrical activity. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>TBH, this article is one of the more exciting things I’ve read recently. Really makes me feel like we might be “getting there” to make cryonics work. </div><div><br></div><div>SR Ballard</div></body></html>