[DIYbio] Animal slaughter -- keeping it alive in a petri

I've been volunteering on a farm that aims for low-input (chems or
work) permaculture. The western Oregon climate is similar to that of
Japan and New Zealand, so lot's of rain and green plants all year
round! The butter is still yellow come winter!

Next week I'm watching/helping with a pig slaughter, so I was thinking
I might try spinning some blood and collecting the plasma and trying
to explant a chunk of heart. I don't have trypsin, though I do have
bromelain, and amazon.com has some digestive tablets that contain
trypsin. Though I don't have micron filters to filter the tablet
solution.

Anyway, I've done this with chicken embryo heart, can't remember what
media I used, but it was probably Eagle or DMEM.

Any ideas for making this work, am I missing something? Will plasma
sustain the cells for a day or so? I think my chicken heart cells
didn't start beating until after a day or two in culture previously.

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-Nathan

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