X-Message-Number: 16543 From: "Joseph W. Morgan" <> Subject: Scientists Studying Suspended Animation Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:57:04 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C0F4FB.6BC4C480 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C0F4FB.6BC4C480 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16543