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Researchers have developed a method to keep a brain alive and functioning for several hours without being connected to the body.

Brainiac

Devices

It keeps the brain functioning — even after it's severed from the body.

New Device Can Keep Brain Alive for Hours Without Body

Here's why surgeons kept a talented musician awake and playing violin while they performed surgery on a portion of her brain.

An Unusual Tune

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It's like something out of a medical drama.

Watch a Violinist Play While Surgeons Operate on Her Brain

Doctors in Texas recorded a livestream of a brain surgery during which the person under the knife, Jenna Schardt, was awake and talking.

Lights, Camera, Scalpel

They removed a mass of seizure-causing blood vessels from the patient's brain — while she was still awake.

Doctors Just Livestreamed a Brain Surgery on Facebook

A team of researchers from at MIT have invented a tiny robotic worm that could be steered through the tiny arteries in the human brain using a magnet.

Brain Worms

The worm could open new doors for minimally invasive brain surgery.

Creepy Robotic Worm Could Wriggle Through Your Brain Arteries

New Implantable Device Could Give Paralyzed People Movement Again

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