5G, Pig Brains, Privacy For Nature. April 19, 2019, Part 1
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🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Science Friday. I'm Ira Flato. |
| 0:02.8 | Later in the hour, the fifth generation of wireless is on its way, but how soon will your phone actually be using 5G? |
| 0:11.4 | Plus why some people, including several lawmakers, are opposing the rollout over potential health concerns. |
| 0:17.8 | But first this week, a story that sounds like something out of science fiction. |
| 0:22.1 | Scientists report in the journal Nature that they have been able to restore some of the cellular |
| 0:27.2 | and circulatory function in pig brains, hours after death. Here to talk about and other selected |
| 0:34.3 | short subjects in science as Washington Post Science reporter, Sarah Kaplan, happily to see you in our studio. |
| 0:39.7 | Great to be here. |
| 0:40.5 | This week. |
| 0:41.1 | All right, let's talk about this. |
| 0:43.2 | It almost sounds like some of the headlines are making it sound like a Franken brain, that's what they create. |
| 0:48.4 | But it's not what they have done, right? |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah, we're not quite at the zombie apocalypse yet. |
| 0:52.7 | Basically, researchers from the Yale School of Medicine |
| 0:55.2 | were able to take some brains from pigs that had been previously killed at a slaughterhouse |
| 1:00.8 | hours before, take them out of the heads, and then infuse them with a sort of cocktail of |
| 1:06.7 | synthetic fluids that prevent the cells from degenerating and actually help restore some |
| 1:11.7 | of the functions like the metabolic activity consuming sugar and oxygen in order to function |
| 1:19.6 | and even some of the electrical activity if they stimulated the cells they were able to |
| 1:25.6 | fire some synapses. |
| 1:30.6 | But it was really, really far from actually getting the brain. |
| 1:32.7 | It wasn't really functioning. |
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