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US boffins resurrect zombie dogs

unheimlich manoeuvre

06:31 / 01.07.05

The Register. Wednesday 29th June 2005

Naturally, there is some perfectly legitimate science behind all this. The team reckons the technique could be used to temporarily suspend battlefield casualties, during which surgeons could repair the damage before jump-starting the bewildered grunt. One unnamed army doc enthused: "The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology."

The scientists plan to reanimate a human subject within a year.

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Is this for real?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

06:43 / 01.07.05

As far as I can ascertain, yes. Don't be put off by the "OMFG teh zomby dogs from BEYOND THE GRAVE!!1!" language being used in a lot of reports (that's just mediochre journalists brandishing their scientific illiteracy as if it's something to be proud of. Again). It's fascinating and if the technology could be developed for use in humans it would have a lot of real-world application.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:49 / 01.07.05

Can you actually do surgery on bodies that are in 'suspended animation'? Doesn't blood need to be flowing and bodily processes happening if there's any chance of healing starting? I know they stop the heart and all for heart and lung transplants, would that be the same here?

Longinus

03:23 / 02.07.05

What facinates me most is what the reborn would have to tell us once they got back, though it probibly wouldn't be anything spectacular. I'd guess it'd be akin to a deep sleep or a coma.

astrojax69

22:40 / 03.07.05

there is good science to support the idea that cold soldiers left on frozen battlefields respond better to time lags before treatment than those taken and warmed up - but 's been a while since i read this and don't have the source. (will have a trawl if i've time) so sounds entirely plausible to me.

not so sure about the efficacy on the brain's capacity to resume normal service after a long drought of fresh, oxygenated blood, though....

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