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Dead could be brought 'back to life' in groundbreaking project
The London Telegraph ^ | May 3, 2016 | Sarah Knapton, science editor

Posted on 05/03/2016 11:08:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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 in the US 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.

The team believes that the brain stem cells may be able to erase their history and re-start life again, based on their surrounding tissue – a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: braininjury; medicine
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1 posted on 05/03/2016 11:08:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, this will all end well.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 11:09:43 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is this about Ted?


3 posted on 05/03/2016 11:11:45 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just heard of this at 1-AM on Coast-2-Coast. Well, there’s (just) dead and there’s “dead”.


4 posted on 05/03/2016 11:12:51 PM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How do you “recruit” people who are brain dead? That will take one hell of a salesman, er, person.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 11:13:02 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Never held a job in the private sector;never met a payroll,never created a job - CRUZ! Conservative!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The ‘Rats have been doing this every fourth November for 100 years.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 11:13:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Windflier

I thought it was about Michael Corleone in Godfather 3 when he said, “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in again!”


7 posted on 05/03/2016 11:13:35 PM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is for brain injuries.

Doesn’t sound apllicable to old age.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 11:15:11 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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Bookmarking


9 posted on 05/03/2016 11:15:35 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No. Let the dead stay dead. It’s not just for physical reasons that we die. Some people are depleted spiritually or damaged emotionally, and have already experienced the deaths of their hope, faith or love of any kind. Let these people move on to the next plane of existence. Do not artificially tether them here, any longer than He commands.


10 posted on 05/03/2016 11:16:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: IncPen

The dead come back to life every 4yrs in illinois


11 posted on 05/03/2016 11:17:09 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: BenLurkin

Closer to 200 years.


12 posted on 05/03/2016 11:19:05 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When I leave this place, I don’t wish to return.


13 posted on 05/03/2016 11:20:41 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Salamander
– a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs....

How often do you do that?

14 posted on 05/03/2016 11:25:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Darksheare; moose07

How fitting for the Undead.. ;-)

Think we can steal it, er, I mean, lease it for a while?


15 posted on 05/03/2016 11:25:50 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
...has been granted ethical permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead...

Does the recruitment process involve a certified seance technician so the patient can communicate consent?

16 posted on 05/03/2016 11:30:21 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: MUDDOG
This is for brain injuries.

Doesn’t sound apllicable to old age.

Or liberals

17 posted on 05/03/2016 11:38:16 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is the Umbrella Corporation, right?


18 posted on 05/03/2016 11:41:19 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: BenLurkin

The ‘Rats have been doing this every fourth November for 100 years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k


19 posted on 05/03/2016 11:45:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What could possibly go wrong here...


20 posted on 05/03/2016 11:51:14 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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