X-Message-Number: 1424
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 16:41:57 EST
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Subject: CRYONICS freezing damage

After reading Mike Darwin's informative and depressing posting about
freezing damage, I'd like to know if there is any possibility of
preserving neural connectivity by chemical preservation and storage
above freezing?  Obviously one totally loses any information encoded in
reactive molecules if one pickles someone in formaldehyde, but can the
cell membranes be preserved?  Fractures at 5 micron intervals are going
to leave an intimidating jigsaw puzzle.
                                             -Jeffrey Soreff

standard disclaimer: I do not speak for my employer.

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