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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....

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: braininjury; medicine
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To: Does so

And there’s really most sincerely dead.


41 posted on 05/04/2016 4:08:46 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: BenLurkin

You bet! I was born and raised in Hudson County New Jersey and every November loads of dead people came back to life. Truly amazing I’ll tell you.


42 posted on 05/04/2016 4:10:15 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Moving on. Your brain stem works, but machines do all the rest."


43 posted on 05/04/2016 4:16:29 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Lil Flower

Forgot the ping.


44 posted on 05/04/2016 4:17:10 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: grey_whiskers

That picture was taken when Kerry’s brain was 12 years younger.


45 posted on 05/04/2016 4:17:17 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: jmacusa
You bet! I was born and raised in Hudson County New Jersey and every November loads of dead people came back to life. Truly amazing I’ll tell you.

It was no coincidence that the first Tuesday in November was chosen...following on the heels of Halloween, the undead voter registration period.

46 posted on 05/04/2016 4:22:40 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

That’s right. The dead would vote the half-dead into office because all the Hudson County Dems would do was basically nothing except steal everything in sight. Then every election cycle they’d suddenly spring back to life to tell just how great they were.


47 posted on 05/04/2016 4:32:58 AM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: TigersEye; shibumi

If you only knew...

;)


48 posted on 05/04/2016 5:11:16 AM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: lee martell; chris37

You people and your common sense!


49 posted on 05/04/2016 5:41:11 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: cynwoody

As an aside, excellent use of the word “unctuous”.


50 posted on 05/04/2016 5:42:21 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better zombies through science


51 posted on 05/04/2016 6:21:34 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Such vain hopes! I trust that God will have the final say in such matters.


52 posted on 05/04/2016 7:38:30 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: VerySadAmerican
How do you “recruit” people who are brain dead?

Well, you could start with the Democrat voter registration lists.

53 posted on 05/04/2016 7:46:38 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Let the dead stay dead”

I agree, Ted is dead.

Now you are into zombie posts?

Oh, cut him (you) some slack. No way, you were a SPAMMER for Cruz, not just a supporter. You have lost all respect and I frankly don’t care what you have to say, even about Zombies.


54 posted on 05/04/2016 7:47:53 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Get to work on it


55 posted on 05/04/2016 7:53:02 AM PDT by wardaddy (gonna need a lot of rope and lamposts and gibbets after this primary season.....)
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To: SaveFerris

“lol - I had already guessed you’d be here, lol.”

I’m a sucker for a great opening.


56 posted on 05/04/2016 8:08:38 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Silly and stupid as Tower of Babel.


57 posted on 05/04/2016 9:22:27 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well sometimes, dead is better. The person you put up there ain’t the person that comes back. The ground is sour, Louis....It might look like that person, but it ain’t that person, because whatever lives on the ground beyond the Pet Sematary ain’t human at all. Sometimes, dead is better.


58 posted on 05/04/2016 9:24:40 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump is great. Just great. He's going to do great things and America will be great and spectacular.)
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To: NoCmpromiz; Darksheare

It won’t work.
No amount of Air Freshener will make this place habitable.
I’ll get the Jetwash. :)


59 posted on 05/04/2016 9:52:00 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. ...Ermentrude chewed on some more grass and watched....)
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To: lee martell

If I am correct, they are restarted with a blank slate. This is only a preliminary study. Probably won’t occur until after the start of the thousand year kingdom. :)

“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.”

Brain plasticity is phenomenal and if total regeneration occurs it would be like being your own clone.

Interesting point is judgment. In the OT if someone changes their life from bad to good only the good counts. If someone changes their life from good to bad, only the bad counts.

Ezekial 18:21-32


60 posted on 05/04/2016 9:53:13 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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