The ethics of OrganEx

Richard Byron Gibson

The ethics of OrganEx

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Nature recently published a study by a team at Yale University in which the circulation and cellular activity of a pig’s vital organs – pancreas, liver, kidney, heart, lungs, and even brain – were restored over an hour after death. While exploratory, the study’s results are nonetheless remarkable, challenging the intuition of death’s irreversibility and having potential severe downstream implications for organ donation practicalities and policies.

Original language	English
Publisher	BMJ Publishing Group
Place of Publication	Forum: Journal of Medical Ethics
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2022

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