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| Subject: Some Hope for Statists: A Biotech Company Has Been Permitted to Try and Resurrect Brain-Dead Patients Mon May 09, 2016 9:27 pm | |
| A US biotechnology company, Bioquark Inc., has been granted permission to recruit 20 brain dead patients and attempt to bring their central nervous systems back to life. The undertaking is certainly a controversial one, but if it’s successful, we could be taken into an entirely new era of medicine.
The permission was given by an Institutional Review Board at the National Institutes of Health in the US and India, and the researchers can begin Phase I clinical trials whenever they’re ready, so the scientists plan to recruit patients for their ReAnima Project immediately.
"This represents the first trial of its kind and another step towards the eventual reversal of death in our lifetime," Ira Pastor, the CEO of Bioquark Inc., told The Telegraph. SEE ALSO: “Serious Accident” Leaves 6 Volunteers Hospitalized, One Brain Dead in French Drug Trial
Although the human trial is a world first, the researchers were inspired by animals, like geckos, that can regenerate body parts.
http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/biotech-company-has-been-permitted-try-and-resurrect-brain-dead-patients |
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