It’s Alive?! Frankenstein & Consciousness with George Mashour and David Andrijevic
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The Machine Perfusion Device Is Like a Heart and Lung Machine, Right?
It's not bacon. Unfortunately, straighten us out. I mean, we, you know, our imagination was just flying there. So it doesn't look as cool as you described now. It's basically what we've done is we developed this technology that is capable of restoring certain cellular functions one hour after the pigs were killed. And how we achieved that is basically and actually how what makes this technology possible is two components. One is a machine perfusion device, which is similar to those heart and lung machines that you hear about in clinics or sometimes called echo machines.
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