Why ghosts violate the laws of physics, vampire populations grow too fast, and zombies are really victims of puffer-fish poison...
A fine example of awful, sensationalist journalism, but still:
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.
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