X-Message-Number: 10117
From:  (Randy)
Subject: Re: Preservation of Swiss Ice Man's brain cells
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:40:00 GMT
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On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:08:51 GMT, in sci.cryonics you wrote:

>(UPI Spotlight)
>Iceman's fat cells well-preserved
>INNSBRUCK, Austria, July 25, (UPI) - Scientists say (Saturday) they
>have discovered ``extraordinarily well preserved'' fatty materials in
>the
>brain and thigh of the ``Tyrolean Ice Man,'' who died 5,300 years ago
>and
>whose frozen body was found in the Alps in September 1991. Writing in
>the
>journal Current Biology, Dr. Michael Hess of the University of
>Innsbruck
>expressed surprise that some subcellular remains were so well
>preserved
>and ``still display outstanding structural and molecular integrity.''
>
>
>***************
>Randy
>Cryonics:  Gateway to the Future?
>http://www.mindspring.com/~cryon/cryonics/cryopage1.html

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