The act of dying and death is itself a continuum. Different parts of the cell may die sooner than other parts. The cocktail you feed it will have to know what part of the cell needs reinvigorating at what time after death. And that would prove to really change as the minutes go by. So also like now science knows there just not one way for cell to die. There are so many different processes that can happen in cells combined in different ways. We wanted to inhibit or stop these different processes. This what we targeted with our drug cocktail.
Can we bring people back from the dead? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss restoring dead cells, the nature of consciousness, Frankenstein's monster, zombies, and more with neuroscientist, David Andrijevic and consciousness expert, George Mashour.
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