Pigs have been brought back to life in a remarkable scientific breakthrough.
Pigs have been brought back to life in a remarkable scientific discovery
The animal were partly revived an hour after their hearts had stopped and experts claim that the practice could revolutionise transplants for humans by giving doctors extra time to harvest organs.
The technique could even bring people who have died from drowning or cardiac arrest back to life but some medics have ethical concerns.
The OrganEx practice, published in the journal Nature, saw researchers at Yale University pump a cocktail of synthetic blood and drugs into pigs that had been dead for an hour.
Six hours later several organs - including the heart - had been partly revived.
Dr. Sam Parnia, from New York University Grossman School of Medicine, commented: "This is a truly remarkable and incredibly significant study."
However, Dr. Anders Sandberg, from Oxford University, warned: "There is a risk that it mainly prevents people from dying rather than making them recover."