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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:17:23 EST
Subject: INC etc

For the benefit of newcomers especially, as further clarification of Kitty 
Antonik's post yesterday and my earlier post today, I might add the following.

Hasty readings of various postings, and the Asilomar conference reports, 
might leave the impression that the Institute for Neural Cryobiology (INC) 
was the sponsor of the hippocampal slice project, from which came the report 
of the K/Na test (53% viability), and that this work was cryonics-inspired 
and cryonics-related. 

Actually, the project had several sponsors and two nominal lead scientists. 
(The actual experimental work, and development of techniques previously 
unachieved, was by Dr. Yuri Pichugin, as mentioned at Asilomar.) At least one 
of the sponsors, and one or both of the nominal lead scientists, have 
requested not to be named on Cryonet for fear of sullying their reputations 
by association with cryonics. The INC had a role in organizing the project, 
and contributed to its funding. Other entities and individuals contributed 
the rest of the funding. By agreement among the various parties, even though 
most of them are nonprofit, 21CM (a for-profit corporation) was reportedly 
given exclusive contractual rights to all commercial uses of the results. 

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org

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