University of Illinois researchers say the domestic pig is ideal for these studies because their brain size, rate of development, and digestive system are excellent analogs for human newborns.

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University of Illinois researchers say the domestic pig is ideal for these studies because their brain size, rate of development, and digestive system are excellent analogues for human newborns. They ...

A Pig's Brain Transcended Its Body, Surging to Life on Its Own. Humans May Be Next. With one groundbreaking experiment, scientists ventured into unexplored realms of neurological function.

The influence sugar appears to have on this kind of brain circuitry has long been likened to the effects of addictive drugs, and the scientists new analysis on pig brains has led them to a similar ...

Characterizing pig hippocampus could improve translational neuroscience Date: September 17, 2018 Source: Society for Neuroscience Summary: A new study establishes the pig as promising preclinical ...

Doctors in New York have managed to keep a brain-dead man in a state of sort of suspended animation for more than a month after removing his kidneys and replacing them with one from a pig.