One step closer to zombies (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

I swear, it's like some scientists have never seen a sci fi/horror movie

No good can come of this

But seriously I don't know what could come of this, where do these studies go? to what end?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death.

The brains could not think or sense anything, researchers stressed. By medical standards “this is not a living brain,” said Nenad Sestan of the Yale School of Medicine, one of the researchers reporting the results Wednesday in the journal Nature.

But the work revealed a surprising degree of resilience among cells within a brain that has lost its supply of blood and oxygen, he said.

“Cell death in the brain occurs across a longer time window than we previously thought,” Sestan said.................

The brains showed no large-scale electrical activity that would indicate awareness. Restoring consciousness was not a goal of the study, which was aimed instead at exploring whether particular functions might be restored long after death...……...

Scientists spur some activity in brains of slaughtered pigs

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Another article
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The brain is fragile, and if deprived of oxygen — for example from a massive heart attack, or through drowning — it will quickly and catastrophically degrade, leading to irreversible brain death.

And that’s it — the end.

But that medical orthodoxy now must contend with a major report published Wednesday in the journal Nature that is simultaneously fascinating and disturbing: Researchers at Yale School of Medicine say they have restored some cellular function in pig brains from animals decapitated four hours earlier at a local slaughterhouse.


Over the course of a six-hour treatment, the brains were infused with a cocktail of synthetic fluids designed to halt cellular degeneration and restore cellular functions, such as metabolic activity.

It worked: The brains continued to consume oxygen and glucose. Many brain cells, including neurons, which send messages within the brain and to the rest of the body, ceased decaying and appear to have been revived in dramatic and detectable ways................

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[Zack Lee]

all I could think of was Hog head cheese. Zombie hog head cheese.

 

[Flipx99]

I thought they had already done this. Anybody else spend time around a Razorbacks' fan?

 

[Taurus]

ETA: Great Scott! I had no idea that other image was so huge. It looked normal on my phone.

 

[St. Geezy]

So this is how the zombie apocalypse begins.

 

[Goatman Saint]

While disturbing in a lot of ways, and promising in others, it makes one wonder if by simply being able to turn the brain on again, if that eventually happens, would restore the person, or would it simply be a blank slate. Would grandma after a stroke and receiving this treatment still be grandma, or a part grandma, part what, blank slates that was capable of learning but not who she was?

 

[49erKiller]

I thought this was another Florida thread.

 

[Dago]

While disturbing in a lot of ways, and promising in others, it makes one wonder if by simply being able to turn the brain on again, if that eventually happens, would restore the person, or would it simply be a blank slate. Would grandma after a stroke and receiving this treatment still be grandma, or a part grandma, part what, blank slates that was capable of learning but not who she was?

you would get...

MECHA GRANDMA

 

[Dago]

I thought this was another Florida thread.

EE is a jump gate to Florida, so every thread is a Florida thread

 

[Goatman Saint]

I thought this was another Florida thread.

It could end up being a huge Florida thread. Half aware, half brain damaged people running around. What could be more Florida than that?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Speaking of zombies hi everyone

 

[Dago]

Speaking of zombies hi everyone

 

[GeauxSainz]

 

[Optimus Prime]

Speaking of zombies hi everyone

Welcome back Guido!