Resurrected: A Controversial Trial to Bring the Dead Back to Life

[Cattledog]

For any given medical problem, it seems, there’s a research team trying to use stem cells to find a solution. In clinical trials to treat everything from diabetes to macular degeneration to ALS, researchers are injecting the cells in efforts to cure patients.

But in one study expected to launch later this year, scientists hope to use stem cells in a new, highly controversial way — to reverse death.

The idea of the trial, run by Philadelphia-based Bioquark, is to inject stem cells into the spinal cords of people who have been declared clinically brain-dead. The subjects will also receive an injected protein blend, electrical nerve stimulation, and laser therapy directed at the brain.

The ultimate goal: to grow new neurons and spur them to connect to each other, and thereby bring the brain back to life.

More at:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/resurrected-a-controversial-trial-to-bring-the-dead-back-to-life/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_HLTH_NEWS&sf84880039=1

[Docreed2003]

1. Sweet...zombie apocalypse here we come!!

[Zoonart]

3. Beat me to it... LOL

[Achilleaze]

2. We will suffer the KGOP Draft Dodger-in-Chief* for eTerNitY

* Comrade Casino, Wicked Excellent Laundry Specialist.

[LongTomH]

4. Will there be anything left of the person's former personality and memories?

You may end up with a person with a clinically working brain, who is the equivalent of a newborn child.

[Bayard]

5. "Playing God"

The fundies will go nuts over this.

[Warpy]

6. Great, from death to a persistent vegetative state

Families will be SO grateful.

Personally, I think they need to start at the beginning instead of the end and I don't think stem cells are quite the right way to go about it, but I suppose every bit of research helps and the dead won't complain.

[defacto7]

7. The dead won't complain...

Unless the come back to life and don't like what they find.

[cstanleytech]

9. Probably the only way to achieve the best results would be with advanced nanites but the

kind of nanites it would take to restore a person to life from death with their memories intact is probably hundreds if not thousands of years away.

[Warpy]

10. What they need to start with is coma

Once they understand that, they'll be able to tackle early brain death. However, once those neurons are gone, they're gone forever and nanites or stem cells won't do much of anything.

[cstanleytech]

11. Yes once they are dead cells the data would be lost however if said nanites were

already in a person they could be programmed to maintain a backup copy from which to restore a persons entire memories from but that level of tech is probably hundreds if not thousands of years in the future.

[Duppers]

8. Extremely doubtful. But speaking of near brain dead,

could it improve cheeto's functioning?