Bexorg, the biotech company keeping human brains alive* in vats for up to 24 hours, is scaling that up to 2 weeks with $28.3m from @arpa-h.bsky.social. Our @science.org story explains why this could be useful for testing new drugs. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
October 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Bexorg, the biotech company keeping human brains alive* in vats for up to 24 hours, is scaling that up to 2 weeks with $28.3m from @arpa-h.bsky.social. Our @science.org story explains why this could be useful for testing new drugs. www.science.org/content/arti...
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“Bexorg” is a *chef’s kiss* name for an evil corporation Making hi-tech zombies.
May 21, 2026 at 8:32 AM
“Bexorg” is a *chef’s kiss* name for an evil corporation Making hi-tech zombies.
Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.
May 21, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.
Bexorg got a $28M ARPA-H award to run longer tests on ‘rebooted’ human brains (don't call them "alive") obtained from organ donors. Last year, they were limiting most tests to 24 hours. Now they will try to keep the brains running for two weeks. endpoints.news/bexorg-gets-...
Bexorg gets $28M ARPA-H award to run longer tests on ‘rebooted’ human brains
Bexorg wins $28.3M ARPA-H award to keep human donor brains alive up to 2 weeks for drug testing. Co-founded by Yale's Nenad Sestan and CEO Zvonimir Vrselja.
endpoints.news
October 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Bexorg got a $28M ARPA-H award to run longer tests on ‘rebooted’ human brains (don't call them "alive") obtained from organ donors. Last year, they were limiting most tests to 24 hours. Now they will try to keep the brains running for two weeks. endpoints.news/bexorg-gets-...
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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
July 20, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases. https://scim.ag/3RS8JI1
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
May 21, 2026 at 11:19 PM
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases. https://scim.ag/3RS8JI1
Bexorg is using its brain-rebooting technology to study drugs before they are tested in living humans. My deep dive I wrote for Endpoints last year gets into the scientific, ethical and businsess details: endpoints.news/rebooting-de...
Exclusive: Rebooting dead human brains, a biotech startup seeks to reinvent early drug testing work
Startup Bexorg, led by Zvonimir Vrselja, keeps human brains alive to test drugs. Their BrainEx system sustains brain cells for 24 hours to improve drug development and reduce animal testing.
endpoints.news
October 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Bexorg is using its brain-rebooting technology to study drugs before they are tested in living humans. My deep dive I wrote for Endpoints last year gets into the scientific, ethical and businsess details: endpoints.news/rebooting-de...
Source: Endpoints News
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Bexorg gets $28M ARPA-H award to run longer tests on ‘rebooted’ human brains
Bexorg wins $28.3M ARPA-H award to keep human donor brains alive up to 2 weeks for drug testing. Co-founded by Yale's Nenad Sestan and CEO Zvonimir Vrselja.
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With DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP I didn’t worry about plausibility. I worried that it could become true before the book’s release.
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Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
May 22, 2026 at 12:28 PM
With DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP I didn’t worry about plausibility. I worried that it could become true before the book’s release.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Neuroscience start-up Bexorg has raised a $42.5 million series A funding round in its mission to use donated brains and artificial intelligence to find new biomarkers and targets for neurodegenerative diseases. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Neuroscience start-up Bexorg nets $42.5 million
The start-up trains AI programs on donated human brains to develop new drug targets
cen.acs.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Neuroscience start-up Bexorg has raised a $42.5 million series A funding round in its mission to use donated brains and artificial intelligence to find new biomarkers and targets for neurodegenerative diseases. cen.acs.org/business/sta... #chemsky 🧪
Uuuuuh if you’re going to end yourself, in the future, & donate your body to science ( or maybe they’ll take it anyway ) make sure whatever you do, your brain becomes mush mush.
I wouldn’t risk a living death like this.
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I wouldn’t risk a living death like this.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
October 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Uuuuuh if you’re going to end yourself, in the future, & donate your body to science ( or maybe they’ll take it anyway ) make sure whatever you do, your brain becomes mush mush.
I wouldn’t risk a living death like this.
www.science.org/content/arti...
I wouldn’t risk a living death like this.
www.science.org/content/arti...
... brain. Zvonimir Vrselja, MD, PhD, and his team at Bexorg are now preserving donated human brains in ways that maintain cellular architecture, allowing researchers to map brain wiring and test potential therapies directly in tissue affected by Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
February 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM
... brain. Zvonimir Vrselja, MD, PhD, and his team at Bexorg are now preserving donated human brains in ways that maintain cellular architecture, allowing researchers to map brain wiring and test potential therapies directly in tissue affected by Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.
Not creepy at all.
Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support
The biotech startup Bexorg keeps the brains running for 24 hours before they're sliced apart and examined by scientists.
trib.al
June 1, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Not creepy at all.
Watch the full video with CEO and Co-Founder of Bexorg, Zvonimir Vrselja, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2xC...
Brain Activity After Death? The Alzheimer’s Breakthrough
YouTube video by Museum of Science
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Watch the full video with CEO and Co-Founder of Bexorg, Zvonimir Vrselja, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2xC...
He should talk to the folks at Bexorg
June 29, 2026 at 11:34 PM
He should talk to the folks at Bexorg
The Yale spinout Bexorg has raised a $23M series A for its cutting-edge and unconventional approch to preclinical research: testing drugs on ‘rebooted’ human brains from organ donors. My story for @endpts.com has the details: endpoints.news/bexorg-raise...
Yale spinout raises $23M to test drugs on ‘rebooted’ human brains from organ donors
Bexorg has collected $23 million in a Series A raise to scale up its human brain experiments, bringing its total funding to $42.5 million, the startup announced Wednesday.
endpoints.news
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Yale spinout Bexorg has raised a $23M series A for its cutting-edge and unconventional approch to preclinical research: testing drugs on ‘rebooted’ human brains from organ donors. My story for @endpts.com has the details: endpoints.news/bexorg-raise...
Anyone who has read a Science Fiction novel in the last 50 years knows where this is going. futurism.com/health-medic...
Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support
The biotech startup Bexorg keeps the brains running for 24 hours before they're sliced apart and examined by scientists.
futurism.com
June 2, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Anyone who has read a Science Fiction novel in the last 50 years knows where this is going. futurism.com/health-medic...
"The brains are already almost devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness": disembodied human brains used for drug testing www.science.org/content/arti... Would you volunteer for this? 🤔
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
May 21, 2026 at 1:31 PM
"The brains are already almost devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness": disembodied human brains used for drug testing www.science.org/content/arti... Would you volunteer for this? 🤔
I think a good theme for the sci-fi approach would be human brain experimentation
Bexorg: The Yale Spinout That Figured Out How to Keep Brains Going Outside the Body | Yale Ventures
Yale spinout, the New Haven Bexorg, has built a machine that keeps a donated human brain biologically functional outside the body for up to a day. The brains aren't conscious or "alive" in any philoso...
ventures.yale.edu
May 24, 2026 at 11:05 PM
I think a good theme for the sci-fi approach would be human brain experimentation
Vývoj léků na Alzheimerovu nemoc dlouhodobě naráží na propast mezi zvířecími modely a lidským mozkem. Americký startup Bexorg proto zkouší radikálně jiný přístup: testování léčiv na celých mozcích zemřelých dárců, v nichž perfuzní systém krátkodobě udržuje molekulární a buněčnou aktivitu.
Bexorg testuje léky na postmortálních lidských mozcích
Vývoj léků na Alzheimerovu nemoc dlouhodobě naráží na propast mezi zvířecími modely a lidským mozkem. Americký startup Bexorg proto zkouší radikálně jiný přístup: testování léčiv na celých mozcích zem
www.nationalgeographic.cz
June 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Vývoj léků na Alzheimerovu nemoc dlouhodobě naráží na propast mezi zvířecími modely a lidským mozkem. Americký startup Bexorg proto zkouší radikálně jiný přístup: testování léčiv na celých mozcích zemřelých dárců, v nichž perfuzní systém krátkodobě udržuje molekulární a buněčnou aktivitu.
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
May 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
Scientists use “dead but living” human brains for cutting edge drug research
Great promise of cures for Parkinson’s & other neurological diseases
All the brains must come from Democrats bc as everyone knows, Repubs & MAGAs have no brain
www.science.org/content/arti...
Great promise of cures for Parkinson’s & other neurological diseases
All the brains must come from Democrats bc as everyone knows, Repubs & MAGAs have no brain
www.science.org/content/arti...
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
May 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Scientists use “dead but living” human brains for cutting edge drug research
Great promise of cures for Parkinson’s & other neurological diseases
All the brains must come from Democrats bc as everyone knows, Repubs & MAGAs have no brain
www.science.org/content/arti...
Great promise of cures for Parkinson’s & other neurological diseases
All the brains must come from Democrats bc as everyone knows, Repubs & MAGAs have no brain
www.science.org/content/arti...
Mark my words, sometime in the near future tech companies will be after your brain. Donor brains are already being kept alive in vats.
"...devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness," fuck off with this bullshit. It IS alive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
"...devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness," fuck off with this bullshit. It IS alive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
www.science.org
July 9, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Mark my words, sometime in the near future tech companies will be after your brain. Donor brains are already being kept alive in vats.
"...devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness," fuck off with this bullshit. It IS alive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
"...devoid of the coordinated neural firing necessary even for minimal consciousness," fuck off with this bullshit. It IS alive.
www.science.org/content/arti...