X-Message-Number: 16737 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 05:57:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Best <> Subject: HSCP Winding-up Friday, June 29th will be Yuri Pichugin's last day doing experimental work for the HSCP. On last report, he is scheduled to be cryopreserving hippocampal slices which will be analyzed after his departure. Analysis will consist of both electron microscope and light microscope as well as the usual K/Na assays for viability. Additionally, some slices will be sent to a world-class hippocampal slice biology lab for a variety of histochemical assays. The electron microscopy at the university where Yuri has been doing his experiments is currently malfunctioning. Therefore the electron micrographs cannot be made until the device is repaired. Dr. Fahy estimates that it may not be until August when the unit will be fixed and he will go to get the micrographs. I will try to give results when I can, but all these factors point to the fact that it may be quite a while before all the results are known -- and longer before they are published. I will be in Europe until July 9th, spending much of the time attending a conference in honor of the 200th birthday of the French Economist Frederic Bastiat: http://www.bastiat.net/en/events/ Upon my return I will try to ensure that tax receipts are sent to all US Taxpayers who contributed to INC in the year 2001. -- Ben Best, President The Institute For Neural Cryobiology (INC) -------------------------------------------- Ben Best () http://www.benbest.com/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16737