I think that dying and coming back to life would result in a lot of brain damage
Is it crazy that my first thought was "oh no, if I die they might revive me and make me keep working"?
Death to America
The way this is phrased also makes it difficult to be optimistic about its usefulness. Who cares if the heart starts beating again if the fuckin pig's still dead? lol
I mean it could be a big deal for stuff like organ transplants
Cuba announcing an effective treatment for Alzheimer's like a week before the news that 20 years of western Alzheimer's research was bullshit really does give me hope
Immortal Cuban super men at our doorsteps is what the headlines will read
Who cares if the heart starts beating again
I mean, for starters, anyone who just suffered a stroke or a heart attack.
This doesn't need to be a treatment for dead beings, just dead cells.
Watch, before we know it we'll have our own Charles Dexter Ward running around
We're all just complicated biological machines aren't we? Or rather, hundreds of thousands of biological machines operating in a complex system, operating in a larger external system both ecologically and culturally ('we live in a society'?).
I never understood why people do things like post a screenshot of a link aggregator about a story about a study. (Sorry for being a grumpy old man.)
Here's the story: https://nyti.ms/3BGoIPh
Here's the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05016-1
post a screenshot of a link aggregator about a story about a study
Because that's what they say and they're just passing it along. The Nature article is dense as dirt and twice as dry. The NYT article is your standard tier Lib bullshit where they pad the word count waxing poetic about what this means philosophically while bending over backwards to convince the readers that no animals were harmed in the making of this zombie.
Its clickbait and it will be treated as clickbait.
Jesus Christ do they have to torture animals for this?
there's definitely no brain function at that point. preserving bodies on a cellular level isn't the same as bringing the dead to life.
but yeah animal testing in general can be pretty grotesque.
This sounds like it could be useful for keeping organs alive for transplants or somethiing like that. That's nice.
But it sounds like what it did was restart individual organs in young and healthy pigs that they had killed. That does not immortality make.
That's about the gist of it. It postpones cell death, which is super useful for moving transplants to where they're needed.
i mean, it would be a good thing to carry with you if you're about to do a violence. maybe for medics and firefighters to carry?
Can I get a sample of this stuff? For...reasons? Sweet, thanks!
:lenin-sleeping: WAKE UP LENIN, WE NEED YOU!
I am sure that this is presented out of context, maybe the pigs were placed into suspended animation before being revived? Very sus
They killed them via electrocuting the heart, waited an hour, and gave them this stuff basically.
Their necks began twitching as well but they aren't sure the mechanism there entirely.
Can't wait for this to be used to keep Kissinger alive for another century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms soviets were doing this kinda stuff waaay back when, formed the basis for a lot of modern heart surgery stuff. still fucked that they can do it with a serum though
