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<p>NEW HAVEN, CT (CBS Local) – Has science gone too far? That’s the question some experts are asking after Yale University researchers announced that they have successfully reanimated a pig’s brain, which had been severed from its body.</p> <p>Yale neuroscientist Nenad Sestan revealed the breakthrough during a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on March 28. Sestan’s team reportedly experimented on over 100 pig brains obtained from a slaughterhouse and restored their circulation using a system of pumps, heaters, and artificial blood. The researchers said they managed to reactivate the brains for up to 36 hours.</p>

Another severed foot was found washed ashore in Canada over the weekend, bringing the total of mysterious feet found since 2007 to 13, the U.K. Daily Mail reports. A group of young campers discovered a size 12 men's hiking boot on British Columbia's Sasamat Lake. What separates this foot from the other 12 found in the British Columbia and Washington state was that it was found in fresh water, not salt water -- and it was found in a hiking boot, not a running shoe. Police said they do not suspect foul play and believe that the feet detached naturally...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (CBS Seattle) — A Washington man loses his arm from a homemade guillotine. The guillotine unexpectedly dropped on his shoulder Thursday morning at a camp he was living at, severing his arm. He left the arm behind after the accident and rushed to Bellingham Urology Specialists.

Updated: 4:55 p.m. U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother received a threatening letter in the mail on the same day that someone apparently severed a gas line at the home in Ivy. Two conservative Tea Party activists posted the address of the home on the Internet on Monday, mistakenly believing it was the home of the congressman. One of the activists urged others to “drop by” and “express their thanks” for Perriello’s vote in favor of health care reform. Tuesday evening, Perriello’s brother’s family smelled gas and discovered the propane line of a gas-powered grill on their screened-in porch had been...

Cheat hubby's willy severed   Pain ... angry wife bit off hubby's manhood  Published: 23 Mar 2009     A FURIOUS wife bit off her hubby's manhood after waking up to find him in a clinch with her best friend. Katya Kharitovonova, 36, was jailed for two years for the wounds she inflicted on hubby Mikhail, 40, and his lover Liza Dmitriyeva, 33. The Russian couple had gone for a walk when they met Katya's pal Liza and invited her home for a meal. After eating, they settled down to watch HG Wells movie The War of the Worlds...

FORT WORTH -- A man’s legs were severed Thursday afternoon when he attempted to jump off a moving train west of downtown and fell under its wheels.The man was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital and is expected to survive his injuries, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, police spokesman.The accident happened shortly after noon on railroad tracks northeast of the intersection of Forest Park Boulevard and Rosedale Street, just north of Jerome Street.“He was trying to get off the train, got caught up in the couplings and, as a result, fell on the track below,” Sullivan said. “In the process, both...

Mystery of the severed skulls grips China By Richard Spencer (Filed: 06/04/2006) The grisly discovery of 121 human skulls, many with their tops sawn off, has puzzled Chinese police and caused a frenzy of speculation. The skulls were found by a farmer in a forested ravine in a part of the poor north-western province of Gansu, which is inhabited by ethnic Tibetans. The skulls' discovery has led to theories of cannibalism Police have confirmed that the skulls are human and are of "recent origin", as suggested by the fact that some had skin and hair still attached. But officials have...

Employees at a Topanga Canyon dump found a work boot containing a recently severed foot in dirt that was dropped off Monday from a construction site at Fox Studios in Century City, sheriff's officials said. After the 9:30 a.m. discovery, sheriff's and Los Angeles police detectives scoured the dump and the construction site at Avenue of the Stars and Pico Boulevard looking for other body parts, sheriff's homicide Capt. Ray Peavy said. Construction workers and a bloodhound helped in the search, but no evidence was found by nightfall. "This could be a case of foul play or some kind of...

A north Harris County woman was on the run Friday, accused of cutting off her boyfriend's penis with a kitchen knife while he was sleeping, sheriff's detectives said. The severed organ has not been found since the attack about 11 a.m. Thursday at the woman's home in the area of West Mount Houston and Airline. The victim, 33, is in Ben Taub General Hospital and is expected to survive. Eighty percent of his penis was severed, detectives said. The Harris County Sheriff's Department declined to release the couple's names because the woman has not been charged. Detectives expect to charge...