Bexorg has built a system that keeps dead human brains alive in a synthetic body, circulating nutrient-rich fluid through artificial organs. The setup lets researchers inject drugs directly into brain tissue to study neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's without experimenting on living people.
He's preparing the brain to go into a machine that will restore its molecular function. The brain won't be alive in a thinking or feeling sense, but it will be doing biological things.
It is physically impossible to conduct experiments in the human brain. Can't go to a human being and conduct experiment in the living human being. So we're trying to work around that issue by taking a dead human brain and see if we can restore, again, certain cells or molecular activity.
Their goal is to study how brains interact with drugs in the hopes of making better medicines faster for conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
All right, so the brain is in this central spot. Yes. Fake blood goes through. We have artificial lungs, we have artificial heart, we have artificial kidney.
And then if you want to inject a drug, you just start to put it into one of these fluid compartments? There are a couple of syringes there.
Yeah. The big one on the right-hand side is actually injecting a compound now, and we are testing a drug against Parkinson's Disease.
Part of Bexorg's special sauce is an actual special sauce. It's a nutrient-rich fluid made from, well, worms.
