For any given medical problem, it seems, there’s a research team trying to use stem cells to find a solution. In clinical trials to treat everything from diabetes to macular degeneration to ALS, researchers are injecting the cells in efforts to cure patients.

But in one study expected to launch later this year, scientists hope to use stem cells in a new, highly controversial way — to reverse death.

The idea of the trial, run by Philadelphia-based Bioquark, is to inject stem cells into the spinal cords of people who have been declared clinically brain-dead. The subjects will also receive an injected protein blend, electrical nerve stimulation, and laser therapy directed at the brain.

The ultimate goal: to grow new neurons and spur them to connect to each other, and thereby bring the brain back to life.

If these medical researchers succeed in bringing dead brains back to life, then they should set up shop in Washington, D.C.

If these medical researchers succeed in bringing dead brains back to life, then they should set up shop in Washington, D.C.

The process of dying (naturally) begins with puberty. The process is generational cell replication decay.
What that means is after puberty our cells replicate in a diminished capacity. Slowly becoming less and less perfect.
Some geneticists believe that degradation is a DNA switch that gets turned on or off at some point during puberty.
I've read a few papers on this subject.
Some scientists not only think aging can be halted but that it can be reversed. Reversed to puberty.
What that means is in the future there could be 150 year old men in puberty.

While there has been no announced break-thrus in the science there are many papers and articles written on the subject.

Use Google Scholar to search keywords like "genetic longevity", "human cell death" or variants.


Politicians are not brain dead. Stupid can't be fixed. All we would have is politicians that are just as stupid but able to exist in that state longer.

This is fascinating in some aspects, but can you image a society full of 150 year old men and women in puberty? I remember those days, lots of hormones flaring, not to mention confusion and unstable emotions.

I think a lot of good has come from medical research, but there comes a time when I believe they need to leave it up to mother nature and not interfere with the nature process of things.

Yes, I didn't say it was a good thing.
Personally I wouldn't want to live that long.
BUT...
Considering that I am old and wearing out quickly now, my reason is age related.
Imagine living for a quarter millennium or more but being as healthy and agile as you were in your teens. You would still gain the wisdom but have no physical barrier/expiration date.

Imagine the artist with 250 years of experience.
Scientists working together for hundreds of years.
Serial killers that don't age out of their practice.
Oppressed nations that last for eons.

If there ever is a break-thru in longevity there will have to be a new modus operandi for the human species.

Aging and dying is a disease. The quest to cure it is already in motion.
Eventually someone will have to address all the speculation related to it.
The question shouldn't be "if we can?" but "if we should?".

From the health website STAT:



Source:
https://www.statnews.com/2017/06/01/brain-death-trial-stem-cells/

If these medical researchers succeed in bringing dead brains back to life, then they should set up shop in Washington, D.C.