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BrainCraft

Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’

Would you get a brain cell transplant?

08/11/2017

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BrainCraft

Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’

Season 3 Episode 32 | 5m 1sVideo has Closed Captions

Would you get a brain cell transplant?

Thanks to medical advances, we can use things like organ transplants and mechanical ventilators to keep us alive – we can even resuscitate a heart that’s stopped beating. So why can’t we bring a brain back to life? Well, our brains are made up of trillions of connections, and generating new brain cells or neurons is complicated. The research, and methods, are pretty controversial.

08/11/2017

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BrainCraft

Ways to Bring the Brain Dead ‘Back to Life’

Season 3 Episode 32 | 5m 1sVideo has Closed Captions

Thanks to medical advances, we can use things like organ transplants and mechanical ventilators to keep us alive – we can even resuscitate a heart that’s stopped beating. So why can’t we bring a brain back to life? Well, our brains are made up of trillions of connections, and generating new brain cells or neurons is complicated. The research, and methods, are pretty controversial.

08/11/2017

FromDigital Studios

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