Paging Dr. West
And then things got weirder.
Boffins create zombie dogs
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death...
Fascinating, I think to myself. This can't be real.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Well, liquids and lightning, that's what the stories have been telling us for years. But come on... seriously. Let's take a look at this so-called Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, out East of course, someone's just making...
The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine addresses "resuscitation medicine" in its broadest sense through programs studying traumatic brain injury, cardiopulmonary arrest, hemorrhagic shock and suspended animation.
...hmm. Well, just because they exist doesn't mean that they're...
SCRR's Shock and Suspended Animation Program (SSAP) continued studying uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UHS) in rats, under US Navy support since spring of 1996. We honored the first year of our proposal and completed several other studies. After publication of our sixth dog study on SA (Capone et al.), Drs. Safar and Tisherman helped the Department of Defense in attempts to obtain funding for a five-year multicenter study.
Well, OK, it looks like they've been working on it for a while, so I suppose they could...
Wait. Department of Defense? Let me get this straight: There are scientists reanimating the dead for the Department of Defense?
Cool.
Aren't there problems with that, though? Side effects? I mean, that's got to be... well, "traumatic" doesn't even seem to cover it, does it?
Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.
Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
Normal, except for having been dead. That's comforting.
Hmmm, it looks like Fox News picked up the story. I wonder what their "fair and balanced" opinion is?
In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs - then brought them back to life.
The hapless pooches, who have their blood drained for up to three hours, are being reanimated in a...
(sigh) Yeah, "balanced." Why do I bother with them? Why? Back to the real news...
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
To life, to life...
I wonder what the legal implications are.
Boffins create zombie dogs
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death...
Fascinating, I think to myself. This can't be real.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Well, liquids and lightning, that's what the stories have been telling us for years. But come on... seriously. Let's take a look at this so-called Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, out East of course, someone's just making...
The Safar Center for Resuscitation Research of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine addresses "resuscitation medicine" in its broadest sense through programs studying traumatic brain injury, cardiopulmonary arrest, hemorrhagic shock and suspended animation.
...hmm. Well, just because they exist doesn't mean that they're...
SCRR's Shock and Suspended Animation Program (SSAP) continued studying uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UHS) in rats, under US Navy support since spring of 1996. We honored the first year of our proposal and completed several other studies. After publication of our sixth dog study on SA (Capone et al.), Drs. Safar and Tisherman helped the Department of Defense in attempts to obtain funding for a five-year multicenter study.
Well, OK, it looks like they've been working on it for a while, so I suppose they could...
Wait. Department of Defense? Let me get this straight: There are scientists reanimating the dead for the Department of Defense?
Cool.
Aren't there problems with that, though? Side effects? I mean, that's got to be... well, "traumatic" doesn't even seem to cover it, does it?
Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.
Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
Normal, except for having been dead. That's comforting.
Hmmm, it looks like Fox News picked up the story. I wonder what their "fair and balanced" opinion is?
In a series of nightmarish experiments straight out of a horror flick, scientists at a leading university have killed dozens of dogs - then brought them back to life.
The hapless pooches, who have their blood drained for up to three hours, are being reanimated in a...
(sigh) Yeah, "balanced." Why do I bother with them? Why? Back to the real news...
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
To life, to life...
I wonder what the legal implications are.