Sunday, June 26, 2005
This Day:

This news is Courtesy Gindy.
What if it were possible to live forever? Recent steps by scientists at Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research at University of Pittsburgh have perhaps made this a possibility. The scientists have created zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

Dead For Two Hours! (Courtesy: Safar Centre)
The dogs were reanimated three hours after their clinical death. The technique involves draining the veins of blood, and replacing it with ice-cold salt solution. The body temperature drops to 7C, enough to induce a state of hypothermia. There is no heartbeat, or brain activity. But when the blood is replaced, the heart restarted with an electric shock and a dose of 100% oxygen is administered, the dogs are brought back to life!!
According to the center, plans to test it on humans should materialize within a year. Other than possible immortality applications, this technique could help save lives on the battlefield, or other critically injured patients. It might also help save patients waiting for organ transplants. Another application is in repairing critical blood vessels; currently, doctors must repair the vessels under a time pressure, as lack of blood would otherwise damage organs that are fed blood through the vessel under repair. During this induced hypothermia, there is no such limitation, as the organs are perfectly preserved:).
Immortality anyone?! ;);).

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21 Comments:

At June 27, 2005 11:47 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...
Brrr... Science is getting scarier by the day and I am not liking it...
 
At June 27, 2005 11:53 PM, Blogger Sray said...
This has a lot of benefits, as I outlined in the post already :). Science is never scary.. it is us humans who choose to apply it in wrong ways, and that is scary.
 
At June 28, 2005 10:44 AM, Blogger KL said...
Any report on whether there were any negative side-effects for the 3 hour clinical death :-)?
 
At June 28, 2005 10:57 AM, Blogger KL said...
Acha abar pore eshe shob porbo. Kheyal chilo na etodin - shob kota article maratok interesting. :):):)
 
At June 28, 2005 11:04 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Negative side-effects... none that I could see. But there might be long-term effects that were not captured in this study!
 
At June 28, 2005 11:05 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Eto interesting to etodin portey paroni?! :D:D:D.
 
At June 28, 2005 3:53 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...
Are you the same person who writes the blog http://musing-wanderer.blogspot.com ?
 
At June 28, 2005 7:33 PM, Blogger Sray said...
No, I am not :).
 
At June 29, 2005 2:57 AM, Blogger LEMNA said...
Say them I am ready to make their experiments on meeeeeeeeee:D:D
 
At June 29, 2005 2:58 AM, Blogger LEMNA said...
Funny anonymous!!!!
 
At June 29, 2005 2:59 AM, Blogger LEMNA said...
Donn think that u r sick,plz, then I will feel sick too haaaaa:D
 
At June 29, 2005 2:59 AM, Blogger LEMNA said...
Deareee someone!:D Take care of little sick Bonobo:D
 
At June 29, 2005 3:00 AM, Blogger LEMNA said...
Would u like me to send soup there?:D:D:D
 
At June 29, 2005 5:49 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Experiments on you?! But I thought you are in a zombie state most of the time anyway :p:p:p :D.
 
At June 29, 2005 5:50 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Yaa send some Ash soup :):).. will ya?! >:D< :):).
 
At June 29, 2005 7:18 AM, Blogger Wayne Smallman said...
This technique doesn't offer any hope of immortality since it doesn't offer any extension to your life span.

Instead, you're given the choice of extending the period of your life through longer periods of 'deep sleep'...
 
At June 29, 2005 7:27 AM, Blogger Sray said...
True. But if I am really sick with a incurable disease today, I might choose to go into deep sleep, and woken up when there is a treatment... since I do expect humanity to conquer death (may be 200 years down the line, who knows?), there does exist this possibility of immortality (or at least immunity from any natural death).
 
At June 29, 2005 10:46 AM, Blogger Wayne Smallman said...
"... since I do expect humanity to conquer death (may be 200 years down the line, who knows?)"

Sooner .. much sooner...
 
At June 29, 2005 11:08 AM, Blogger Sray said...
Yaa I too suspect it will be sooner rather than later, perhaps even in our lifetime :).
 
At July 01, 2005 4:56 PM, Blogger Sray said...
Technology is and always has been a double-edged sword. It is up to us to use it for good, or for bad. This has been the issue since the dawn of human-kind... to use fire to cook, or burn down your neighbor's house!
 
At December 16, 2007 12:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...
very creepy .... but also very facinating to read about...in my opinion if this works out on humans no one will ever die!....but then again science I must agree is getting type creepy so well see in the meere future whats in store...
 

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