Okay. Not really zombies, but the next best thing.


Gizmodo reports:

Mark Roth, a biochemist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, has been working on suspended animation - inspired by the processes of animal hibernation - for years now. In 2005, with funding from Pentagon far-out research arm Darpa, Roth managed to reanimate rats suffering from massive blood loss, using hydrogen sulfide to knock them out and curb their oxygen consumption.

Since then, Roth has made significant progress. His hydrogen sulfide procedure has completed phase 1 of the three clinical trials required before FDA approval. And he's moved onto a new, related method that could boost trauma survival even more effectively.

So what I'm reading from this is two things:

1) The word "reanimate" was used. That means zombie. That's practically the only thing that could mean, right?

2) This guy is 1/3 of the way through with getting a method of ZOMBIFYING PEOPLE approved by the FDA.

I may not be a scientist or award-winning zombie expert (I sincerely hope there is such a thing as an award for a zombie expert), but this is pretty much how every zombie related video game or movie starts, isn't it? Some company or military research organization creates some drug or something that has unknown consequences. If shit gets real I'm going total Shaun of the Dead style. I need a plucky, blonde ex-girlfriend though, so I'll have to get to work on this. Of course it could just go down like this:

Jesus Christ. Did I put enough videos in this post?