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A Biotech Company Are Going To Try And Reactivate Brains Of The Dead

A Biotech Company Are Going To Try And Reactivate Brains Of The Dead

Groundbreaking.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

If 'Dead Rising', 'The Walking Dead' and 'Shaun of the Dead' has taught me anything, it's that people coming back to life is bad news.

They could have been the nicest person in the world, who took their dog on sunset walks, bought elderly people ice creams and supported local charities - but the minute they become a revived flesh eating zombie that wants a chunk of my skin, I'm showing no remorse.

Despite this, a biotech company in America has been granted ethical permission to attempt to use stem cells to reactivate the brains of the dead.

Bioquark Inc's ReAnima project looks to take 20 brain-dead patients and see if they can partially bring people back from the dead.

There's currently absolutely no way of knowing whether the results will be successful, disastrous or neutral. However, as alluded to before, video games and multiple films have taught us that people coming back from the dead is not a good thing. Make sure you have some kind of bat nearby at all times.

The team heading up the project will test a combination of therapies on the participants, who have been medically certified as being brain dead and are only kept alive by the support of machines.

Techniques including the injection of stem cells into the brain, nerve stimulation and giving the spinal cord infusions of beneficial chemicals will all be tried.

The Telegraph reported that Dr Ira Pastor, the CEO of Bioquark Inc. said: "This represents the first trial of its kind and another step towards the eventual reversal of death in our lifetime. We just received approval for our first 20 subjects and we hope to start recruiting patients immediately from this first site - we are working with the hospital now to identify families where there may be a religious or medical barrier to organ donation."

"To undertake such a complex initiative, we are combining biologic regenerative medicine tools with other existing medical devices typically used for stimulation of the central nervous system, in patients with other severe disorders of consciousness. We hope to see results within the first two to three months," he continued.

The trials for the ReAnima project will begin at Anupam Hospital in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand in India next year, where hopefully they'll successfully stimulate nervous systems and restart the brains. It'd undoubtedly be groundbreaking research.

If you are terrified of a full scale zombie apocalypse, take some tips from people we spoke to who already have a plan in place.

Words by Mark McGowan

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Topics: Science