A biotech company is keeping recently deceased human brains active on a high-tech life-support system.
The reasons?
The company says they want to pave the way for an animal-free era of neurological drug testing.
Spun out of Yale University research, biotechnology startup Bexorg is challenging traditional drug testing boundaries by placing donated human brains on an artificial life-support system called BrainEx.
Shortly after a donor's death, the company connects the bodiless organ to pumps that circulate an oxygen-rich, nutrient-dense blood substitute to restore cellular and metabolic activity. To address the immediate ethical concerns surrounding consciousness, Bexorg keeps these brains under deep anesthesia using propofol, ensuring there is no organized neural firing or awareness.
The organs remain active for just 24 hours—providing researchers with a critical window to test drugs for diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's on actual human tissue—before being dissected for detailed analysis.
This whole-organ technology is part of a broader, high-stakes shift toward replacing flawed animal models, which contribute to a staggering failure rate in central nervous system drug trials. Other forward-looking companies are pursuing alternative biological avenues; Tessara Therapeutics is growing thousands of miniature, human stem-cell-derived 'mini-brains,' while Cortical Labs has engineered a platform that embeds living neurons onto silicon chips.
Even more radically, startups like R3 Bio are exploring genetically engineered, brainless human bodies to serve as whole-body medical models. Together, these groundbreaking platforms could significantly accelerate the development of life-saving therapeutics while moving medicine beyond the ethical and biological limitations of animal testing.
source: Cross, R. (2025). Exclusive: Rebooting dead human brains, a biotech startup seeks to reinvent early drug testing work. Endpoints News.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The week-long funeral marathon for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei concluded on July 9, 2026, after touring five cities across Iran and Iraq. Despite massive rhetoric promising unprecedented military retaliation and millions of dollars in bounties, the real-world display of anger focused heavily on symbolic gestures: THEY HANGED AND BURNED A TRUMP EFFIGY.
Leftists will do this thing where they say the thing you’re saying back at you even if it makes no sense, and they think that somehow makes you look idiotic
@DeMickyD@RealJMcAfreak@Neko_Nighsha @CVicious13 You’re being disingenuous. You get visibility limited for using the normal font since that’s what gets detected on this platform. It’s not about being afraid to type it if you’re typing it with a different font so that it can actually be seen.
@yandurathedoll @bentley175@BigRedCeltTT Even assuming this logic is sound, can you show Pepe being referenced and not just the Slav squat? Making the least assumptions, “some guy from a meme” is still just Slav squat and not Pepe.
Maybe your pay pigs like when you reach this far, but you need to actually prove this.
@bentley175 @yandurathedoll @BigRedCeltTT It’s mainstream. It’s used on Twitch as an emote and has existed as a meme longer than groypers have been around.
@yandurathedoll @BigRedCeltTT 1. You still haven’t proven that imitating the slav squat meme means you’re dressed as Pepe. This is critical to your argument btw.
2. Even if Pepe were relevant, the ADL (incentivized to call anything a hate symbol for what should be obvious reasons), also said:
Charlie Kirk was assassinated on 9/10. Since then the government has:
- Passed amendment that bans Pentagon from boycotting Israel
- Proposed a bill for Rubio revoke passports for Israel critics
- House approves 650M+ for Israels missile defense
- Marco Rubio visits Israel
What about protecting Americans?
Where is Donald Trump’s leadership?
WHAT ABOUT AMERICA?
@yandurathedoll @BigRedCeltTT That’s a reach. It’s the slav squat, the illustration in your image is of Pepe doing it but in no way has been exclusive to Pepe. Nor has Pepe even been exclusive to groypers, and there’s nothing about the costume that even shows he was trying to be Pepe.
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