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Company BioQuark try to restore the brain of deceased people connected to life-support system
British The Telegraph reports on the experiment, which intends to put the US biotech company BioQuark - experts of the company, having secured official permission from US regulators are looking for 20 volunteers with confirmed state of brain death, but still connected to life-support system. The purpose of the experiment is that by injection of stem cells, a synthetic protein BQ-A stimulation and neural tissue with laser pulses to try to restore the brain functions of humans and display vegetative state.
The experiment is officially called The ReAnima Project, divided into several stages, the first of which involves the daily administration to a patient in spinal cord protein BQ-A and stem cell injections every two weeks for at least six weeks. Everything will take place not in the US, in the Indian city of Rudrapur. In the interview, which distributes CEO BioQuark Pastor Ira (Ira Pastor), is difficult to understand how his company won the right to medical experiments with people - whether there are already some significant results of protein application BQ-A or is it just the initial stage of operation. Also bypassed ethical question that will have to decide with relatives of people.
In the United States adopted an official document "unified definition of the act of death» (Uniform Determination of Death Act), developed by a number of organizations such as the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, the National Conference on the Standardization of state laws and the Presidential Commission for the Study of the ethical problems of medicine. This document is voiced by strict criteria for determining whether or not a person has died. According to him, the death of the patient is ascertained in the case of irreversible cardiac arrest and irreversible cessation of breathing or functioning of the brain of man. All future participants of the project BioQuark were found dead just the second criterion, and their circulation and respiration continues to be supported artificially by doctors.
It is worth noting that the fact of death of the person determined by the fact of brain death is recognized as including the Roman Catholic Church.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/275416/
The experiment is officially called The ReAnima Project, divided into several stages, the first of which involves the daily administration to a patient in spinal cord protein BQ-A and stem cell injections every two weeks for at least six weeks. Everything will take place not in the US, in the Indian city of Rudrapur. In the interview, which distributes CEO BioQuark Pastor Ira (Ira Pastor), is difficult to understand how his company won the right to medical experiments with people - whether there are already some significant results of protein application BQ-A or is it just the initial stage of operation. Also bypassed ethical question that will have to decide with relatives of people.
In the United States adopted an official document "unified definition of the act of death» (Uniform Determination of Death Act), developed by a number of organizations such as the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, the National Conference on the Standardization of state laws and the Presidential Commission for the Study of the ethical problems of medicine. This document is voiced by strict criteria for determining whether or not a person has died. According to him, the death of the patient is ascertained in the case of irreversible cardiac arrest and irreversible cessation of breathing or functioning of the brain of man. All future participants of the project BioQuark were found dead just the second criterion, and their circulation and respiration continues to be supported artificially by doctors.
It is worth noting that the fact of death of the person determined by the fact of brain death is recognized as including the Roman Catholic Church.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/275416/
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