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Biotech Company To Attempt Revitalizing Nervous Systems of Brain-Dead Patients (telegraph.co.uk)
Sarah Knapton, writing for The Telegraph: A groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people, has won approval from health watchdogs. A biotech company called BioQuark in the U.S. has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life. Scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas. The trial participants will have been certified dead and only kept alive through life support. They will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord -- the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat.
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"This research headed by Dr. Herbert West of Miskatonic University...."
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Bringing back the dead, I thought zombie stories belonged on a different site?
Has many in need. Just look on the Republican side. Pick any. Take all.
seen it.
Republicans stumble around while rejoicing, and repeatedly banging into walls.
I mean, seriously, everybody knows it's a bad idea to bring back dead people. Hummm where is the most isolated place in Europe ? I should buy some land there...
"the team plans to start recruiting patients immediately."
Sign me up!
From whom?
Would that be an ethics board consisting of investors, politicians, or an objective mix of both?
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Zombies.
...like, say, Ted Chiang's "Understand".
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Run for the hills.
That must be the real deal! Just how they show it in the movies!
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I'm frightened that they'll turn comatose/brain-dead people into locked-in people. I consider the latter a fate worse than death.
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Here's a new idea for a plot: person being experimented-on can't move or respond but feels and hears everything. Agony, hopelessness, and desperation as research staff leaves the TV on reruns of old shows for decades. By the time they fully revive him, he's gone mad and they give up. The Diving Bell and the Metamorphosis.
Thus began the zombie apocolypse. All hail our new master, the Umbrella Corporation!
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Paging Herbert West, Herbert West, please come to the blue phone!
If their eyes turn blue, you should probably burn them.
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"to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury"
I'm really interested to hear how you can recruit someone who is clinically dead. Or is it just the editors who are brain-dead?
The current zombie epidemic was caused by BioTek when they tried to reanimate the dead. (citation needed)
I mean, aren't they afraid of the competition?
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So, here are our next 20 congressmen.
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Within a week I'll be seeing this on some politically-skewed news site given as proof that brain death is just something doctors invented as an excuse to kill people. A week later, Obama will have invented it.
Full stop. If they "regrow" something it will be 100% a new person, most probably limited to basic baby like reaction. Now if they had spoken of persistent vegetative state that would be something else. But assuming a correct diagnose then brain dead == corpse with a beating heart maintained by machines.
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I believe a Jacob's ladder or at least a tesla coil are customary in such experiments.
At least the recruiter doesn't need to have any social skills!
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Yeah, death sucks and usually makes the survivors feel shitty for a while, but it's all part of life. I can understand trying to cure a disease that leads to a long and painful demise, but why try to bring the dead back to life? They've already gone through the hard part. I'd personally be pissed if I died, then found out I had to do it all over again at a later date. Also, if we 'cure' brain death, we'll no longer have an ethical way to harvest organs for donation. The loss of a single person often leads to saving the lives of several others. Sometimes dead is better. :)
Good old Jean-Claude van Ramme.
So, suppose this works and a patient is revived to the point they are no longer brain dead. Will they be declared living? Will BioQuark assume responsibility for their care? Or, being legally dead, can BioQuark terminate them when they are done?
Looks H1B workers are no longer the problem now it will zombies.
...it is really going to mess with the organ market, since there will be fewer sources to harvest.
Just say'n...
We are the Borg... ehm.. I mean BioQuark
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It's actually the other way round. Once it has been established that the constantly changing network of neurochemical pathways has irrevocably turned into pudding, brain death is declared.
Recruiter: "So Mr ... ah .. Smith. My final question for you is the important one. As for the previous questions, your silence will be interpreted as consent. So, Mr. Smith would you like to be part of our study? '
Brain Dead Person (Mr. Smith):
Recruiter: "Excellent! Welcome aboard, great to have you on the team. Our people will draft up the paperwork and we'll get right to work. Thank you for your cooperation."
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.
I can't escape the feeling that anyone brought back in this manner would be living in vain.
Maybe NASA would have a use for them...
I came across this idea on Facebook. Is this a real thing they are practicing, or is it just a movie?