{"id":25688,"date":"2016-05-13T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:23:02","slug":"were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Closer Than Ever to Bringing the Dead Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The use of cryogenics, for now, borders on science fiction\u2014but that hasn\u2019t stopped scientists and wealthy enthusiasts from trying to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Humai, an L.A.-based robotics company, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/humai-wants-to-resurrect-humans-within-30-years\" target=\"_blank\">hopes<\/a> to freeze human brains after death with the expectation that technology will soon catch up\u2014allowing the brain to be resurrected in an artificial body. Neuroscientists have excessively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/fionarutherford\/this-company-is-claiming-to-be-able-to-bring-the-dead-back-t\" target=\"_blank\">cautioned<\/a> about lending cryogenics credence, but scientific research has blurred the definition of death and the consensus on when it occurs.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries, death was called at the moment the heart stopped beating. However, medicine has evolved to the point that <a href=\"http:\/\/cpr.heart.org\/AHAECC\/CPRAndECC\/AboutCPRFirstAid\/HistoryofCPR\/UCM_475751_History-of-CPR.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">cardiopulmonary resuscitation<\/a> (CPR) is now a common life-saving technique incorporated in basic first aid training, along with more advanced forms of resuscitation\u2014like defibrillators\u2014that can restart the heart. Several cases have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-22154552\" target=\"_blank\">cited<\/a> where a person under cardiac arrest has been brought back to life hours after they\u2019ve technically died, when cooling processes and correct resuscitation procedures are implemented. According to a 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/ncomms\/journal\/v3\/n6\/full\/ncomms1890.html\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in <em>Nature<\/em>, skeletal muscle stem cells can retain their ability to regenerate for up to 17 days after death, redefining death as occurring in steps rather than at one single moment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/05\/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringing-the-dead-back-to-life\/\">http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/05\/were-closer-than-ever-to-bringin...k-to-life\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of cryogenics, for now, borders on science fiction\u2014but that hasn\u2019t stopped scientists and wealthy enthusiasts from trying to make it a reality. Humai, an L.A.-based robotics company, hopes to freeze human brains after death with the expectation that technology will soon catch up\u2014allowing the brain to be resurrected in an artificial body. Neuroscientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61814,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25688\/revisions\/61814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}