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From: "Joseph W. Morgan" <>
Subject: Scientists Studying Suspended Animation
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:57:04 -0700

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported this week that in February Canadian 
toddler Erika Nordby astonished doctors by surviving face down in the snow with 
her heart stopped for two hours.


Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle are doing 
research to investigate the mystery of suspended animation  They are using 
zebrafish, a tiny vertebrate widely used as a model for biological research in 
higher life forms.  Results of their research was published Tuesday in the 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


This is certainly of interest to cryonicists.  However, note that extremely low 
temperatures were not involved.  Oxygen deprivation may have had a role in this 
phenomenon.   It may have something to do with mammalian hibernation.  If bears 
can hibernate, why can't people?  


Perhaps there is some way to induce hibernation in people.  Combine this with 
very low temperatures and...


Joseph W. Morgan


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