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instead, it looks like scientists are trying to restore brain dead people. Here are the details from Vocative:<\/p>\n
No, it\u2019s not science fiction. Indian researchers are embarking on a study to try to literally revive the brain dead. A person is both medically and legally dead when the brain stops working, an irreversible condition known as brain death. Now, if one group of scientists have their way, the definition of death might get a bit more complicated\u2014they are kicking off a clinical trial<\/a> in which they will try to regenerate a portion of the brain in 20 people with brain death.<\/b><\/p>\n The problem I see at this point, when someone is brain dead, their brains are basically…dead. The damage is so severe that even if they could regenerate it, the person who was there is long gone. Basically, you would wake up someone with the mind of a newborn.<\/p>\n The next section of the story involves who is doing this, Bioquark and Revita Life Sciences of India, and some of the drugs and other stuff they\u2019re going to use. Feel free to hop over and read that if it interests you. Me, I\u2019m more interested in the potential Zombies.<\/p>\n In this first trial of the Reanima project, the researchers are simply looking to see if a drug can prompt the \u201cdead\u201d brain to regrow functional neurons that could help restore the brain function. The study will take place in India.<\/b><\/p>\n So when we hear reports of the dead walking from India, we can quickly narrow down the cause? Great! According to the story, they have 20 brain dead subjects they can experiment on. It will take about 6 weeks with injections into the brainstem.<\/p>\n At the end of the trial, the researchers will take MRIs of the brainstem to see if there\u2019s been any promising growth in the brain\u2014\u201cNot just willy nilly nervous tissue, but actual structural growth,\u201d Ira Pastor, the CEO of Bioquark, told Vocativ.<\/b><\/p>\n Wait, what? The brainstem controls the body\u2019s functions. The higher brain functions are in a different area altogether, and those are the areas that hold things like thought and suppress the desire to eat brains.<\/p>\n The researchers are keeping their goals modest for this initial trial. \u201cWe don\u2019t believe people will be independently breathing after six weeks,\u201d Pastor says. Eventually, though, they would like to get to the point where brain dead patients can progress gradually through levels of increasing consciousness<\/a>\u2014through vegetative state, then coma, then minimally conscious state\u2014until they can simply wake up. <\/b><\/p>\n And if they wake up and start eating your brains?<\/p>\n The one community he has gotten pushback from, though, are people worried that Bioquark is going to create real-life zombies like those in \u201cThe Walking Dead.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m amazed at how people think will start the zombie apocalypse,\u201d he says, admitting that if he truly had the technology to raise the dead from the ground, it would be pretty cool, despite their hankering for human flesh.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n