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Scientists create zombie dogs

Uh, I just don't know what to make of this. I'm genuinely speechless.

Thanks (I think) to the folks over on /. for pointing out this priceless news tidbit.

Nick Buchan of NEWS.com.au writes:

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.

But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

posted by Fergie @ 6/27/2005 01:12:00 PM