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wow, this is interesting news...

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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, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

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.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,

But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.

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.

"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," said one US battlefield doctor.

Time to pull out the chainsaws, people! :D

There are already human zombies in Haiti. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yeah okay, but do they eat brains? What kind of zombie are you if you don't eat brains!? (A very, very bland zombie. [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

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Originally posted by SomeGuy:
Yeah okay, but do they eat brains? What kind of zombie are you if you don't eat brains!? (A very, very bland zombie. [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

A brainless one ;)

I'd rather take a zombie that does things for me than a zombie that tries to eat my brain. If I wanted my brains eaten, I'd get a mind flayer.

Does the procedure destroy the "victims" brain? If not then its not really a zombie is it... probably more of a Zombo... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hmm. If you died of old age, would this allow you to live longer? Or simply let you die again? Interesting one.

No, you can be resuscitated only if your death was cused by a healable failure of an organ. Old age is not healable, it's a full organism breakdown.

I know it's all in the name of science, but I really feel sorry for the dogs.