Category: Oxygen
- How Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died ()
Oxygen is the elixir of life. Stop its flow—during a stroke, heart attack, or death—and the body’s tissues respond in a biological storm that eventually leads to their death. It’s not great for organ transplants. Most donated organs struggle to survive beyond death. Deprived of oxygen, they rapidly lose their function. Cells turn into acidic, […]
- The lugworm, frequently used as bait, could save human lives ()
For centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm — dark pink, slimy and inedible — was on the end of a fish hook. But the invertebrates’ unappreciated status is about to change. Their blood, say French researchers, has an extraordinary ability to load up with life-giving oxygen. Harnessing it for human needs could […]