Did the Brain Come Back Alive?

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Under a microscope, the cells in them looked alive. Looked like some of the cells in the heart had come back to life. This is just it's a lot. So they revive these cells. That's not the same thing as reviving an organ,. Or is it just the beginning? Is it the first step towards something like that?

Death used to be fairly self-evident, but new technologies have forced us to ask: When is someone actually dead? And now, new research is raising a further question: Could death someday be reversible?

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