What?! Bring the deadback to life? Yeah? You heard it right. It might sound weird and unreal. But health watchdogs in the US and India have granted permission for a groundbreaking trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people. The biotech company, Bioquark Inc, has been granted permission to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury, to test whether parts of their central nervous system can be brought back to life. The report said scientists will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of peptides, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas.Dr. Ira Pastor, CEO of BioquarkInc, said: "This represents the first trial of its kind and another step towards the eventual reversal of death in our lifetime. We just received approval for our first 20 subjects and we hope to start recruiting patients immediately from this first site we are working with the hospital now to identify families where there may be a religious or medical barrier to organ donation," the Telegraph quoted him as saying. The trial participants will be monitored for several months using brain imaging equipment to look for signs of regeneration, particularly in the upper spinal cord — the lowest region of the brain stem which controls independent breathing and heartbeat, the report said. The team believes that the brain stem cells may be able to erase their history and re-start life again, based on their surrounding tissue — a process seen in the animal kingdom in creatures like salamanders who can regrow entire limbs, the report added.
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