X-Message-Number: 13986
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:57:12 -0700
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Baboon freeze

> From: "Dani Kollin" <>
> 
> Pardon my ignorance but why wasn't the baboon in the below article frozen
> for say, one year as opposed to only 55 minutes?

Hi, Dani --

I think the operative words here are "for the first time".

You gotta start somewhere.  If 55 minutes work, then maybe try it for 
24 hours, then a week....  If you start with a year and it doesn't 
work, you know nothing about what shorter times would have resulted
in, not to mention having to wait a year for the results.

Cheers,
Kennita

> Berkeley, California, May 29 1992. BioTime Inc. has, for the first time,
> successfully revived a baboon following a procedure in which the animal's
> deep body temperature was lowered to near-freezing and its blood was
> replaced with BioTime's patent-pending blood- substitute solution.
> 
> The animal was anesthetized, immersed in ice and cooled to below 2 degrees
> Celsius, using the BioTime solution with cardiopulmonary bypass procedures.
> After being bloodless and below 10 degrees Centigrade for 55 minutes, the
> animal was rewarmed and revived. The baboon is presently under study by
> BioTime scientists to determine any long-term physical effects.
> 
> The company intends to conduct further experiments on primates, using its
> blood-substitute solutions.

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