X-Message-Number: 15241
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:11:13 -0500
From: Saul Kent <>
Subject: Ettinger's Wrong Assumption

        In msg #15227, in which Bob Ettinger reviews the 
paper "Permanent Life Support by Kidneys Perfused with a 
Vitrifiable (7.5 Molar) Cryoprotectant Solution" by Bijan S.
Kheirabadi and Gregory M. Fahy (Transplantation, Vol. 70,
51-57, No. 1, July 15, 2000), Ettinger makes the following
assumption:

        "The paper discussed today is only about six
months old, based on work probably only about a year old."

        This assumption is wrong.  Actually, the research
described in the paper is much older than that, as stated 
explicitly in the "Acknowledgments" section of the paper:

        "This research was performed at the Transplantation
Laboratory of the American Red Cross's Jerome Holland
Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland from 1988 through 1989."

---Saul Kent, 
Chairman of the Board
21st Century Medicine

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