Resurrection of the ReAnima Project
Scientists from the United States have promised to resume experiments on the "resurrection" of the brain
Scientists from the BioQuark company talk about the resumption of experiments on the "resurrection" of the brain of deceased people, which this time will be conducted in Latin America. This was reported to the press by the head of the company Ira Pastor.
"Of course, it would be foolish to expect that we will succeed the first time using only one technique. Therefore, we will apply several approaches at the same time. It seems to me that we have a fairly good chance of success, we just need to focus on this idea and find the right minds to implement it," said the Pastor, whose words are quoted by Scientific American (Resurrected: A Controversial Trial to Bring the Dead Back to Life).
Two years ago, the US regulatory authorities issued BioQuark the first permit in the history of medicine for experiments in which employees of this company will try to restore part of the brain functions using a synthetic protein codenamed BQ-A, special stem cells, laser brain stimulation and electrical stimulation of the median nerve.
The experiments themselves, as originally planned by BioQuark specialists, were to be conducted not in the USA, but in India, at the Rudrapur hospital, where scientists planned to recruit a group of 20 "volunteers" in a state of clinical death, whose relatives agreed to donate the bodies of the deceased for scientific experiments.
Strokes and various head injuries often put a person in a condition that doctors call "brain death". In such cases, the patient's body still lives if it is supported by artificial respiration devices and waste disposal, but the brain is no longer functioning. In fact, a person in such a state can already be recognized as dead, since he cannot live independently.
The reason for the onset of "brain death", as scientists from BioQuark explain, is that the lower parts of the brain stem, located at the base of the neck and critically important for human life, die as a result of injury or chronic lack of oxygen. Their death, as a rule, is fatal for a person, since without them our body is not even able to breathe independently and control the work of the heart.
Using BQ-A injections, stem cells and laser pulses, scientists hoped to "restart" the brains of deceased Indians as part of the ReAnima project, but the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) banned these experiments for formal reasons in November last year.
Now, according to the Pastor, BioQuark is in the last stages of negotiations with the regulatory authorities of one of the Latin American countries, which has already agreed to conduct such experiments. According to him, the first experiments may begin this summer, and the venue will be announced "in the coming months."
The main task of these experiments, as the head of BioQuark emphasized, is not a "full-fledged" resurrection of a person, but a partial restoration of brain activity after clinical death has been recorded. If scientists manage to solve this problem, then BioQuark specialists will start thinking about how to move on.
Other scientists continue to believe that such experiments "have no scientific basis" and accuse BioQuark of giving people unfounded hopes for the return to life of their deceased relatives. According to them, the implementation of such an undertaking borders on "miracle-working, which even the pope would recognize."
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05.06.2017