X-Message-Number: 12480
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Skrecky <>
Subject: comments Darwin

In Message #12475  wrote:

> Again, he berates us for failing to recognize the magnitude of the
> recent advances, or to act on that recognition. Yet again I note that
> much information is still not available to us,
>
  I don't usually like to go out of my way to agree with Mike myself, but
in this case I think he does have a point. For example much information on
the superiority of ethylene glycol over glycerol, particularly for organ
preservation is available on the net. Just go to Pubmed at
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed and do a combined search on ethylene glycol
and cryopreservation.
  The main reason for the superiority of ethylene glycol is its much
greater or faster penetration into tissue. Glycerol simply isn't in the
same league, and is greatly inferior for cryopreservation purposes. I
beleive Mike has also done some work on this.
  The next advance for cryonics was made a long time ago by
cryobiologists, and their work is available in abstract form on Pubmed.
The full research reports unfortunately are available only in medical
journals, but these are an enlightening read as well.

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