Christopher Butler

is a 29-year-old human being, lives in Chapel Hill, NC, works as Vice President of newfangled.com, reads, writes, draws, and thinks about the future.

This is a some incredible footage from the laboratory of Doris Taylor, a medical researcher working on revitalizing organs using stem cells. In this video, you’ll see a pig’s liver and hear that were removed from a cadaver and then washed (using basic soap) to remove the dead cells. Taylor’s lab team eventually discovered that they could get a dead, washed heart to restart, using stem cell therapy. The systems and machines that her lab has built to wash and rebuilt hearts are amazing!

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