Reversing cellular death
Conundrum, Fri Aug 11 2017, 06:51AMThey say time is the fire in which we burn.. turns out that at least in the laboratory cell death might not be as irreversible.
The early stages can be "wound back" allowing the cell to replicate.
Interestingly this breakthrough if applied to transplanted human organs might save many lives, as the major problem is too many damaged and dead cells even in that short window of anoxia.
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Re: Reversing cellular death
Sulaiman, Fri Aug 11 2017, 08:27AM
there may be a slight side effect - you will slowly transform into a zombie !
Sulaiman, Fri Aug 11 2017, 08:27AM
there may be a slight side effect - you will slowly transform into a zombie !
Re: Reversing cellular death
Conundrum, Sat Aug 12 2017, 03:55AM
The latest idea is that cancer resurgence (aka failure of remission) is actually the cancer cells recovering, so a way to isolate this mechanism would help.
The ethical concerns might be relevant if this or a similar technique can reverse the early stages (5-20 minutes) of brain death caused by (eg drowning) as someone thus revived might not be 100% recovered.
What we don't want is people with no memories or worse profound disability, depending how the recovery progresses it might be possible that the revived neurons could be "re-taught" somehow.
Conundrum, Sat Aug 12 2017, 03:55AM
The latest idea is that cancer resurgence (aka failure of remission) is actually the cancer cells recovering, so a way to isolate this mechanism would help.
The ethical concerns might be relevant if this or a similar technique can reverse the early stages (5-20 minutes) of brain death caused by (eg drowning) as someone thus revived might not be 100% recovered.
What we don't want is people with no memories or worse profound disability, depending how the recovery progresses it might be possible that the revived neurons could be "re-taught" somehow.
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