X-Message-Number: 16927 From: "Joseph W. Morgan" <> Subject: Cryo-Surgery Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 16:02:32 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C107C7.6549B460 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On the Discovery Science Channel I watched a cancerous tumor being destroyed by freezing it and bursting the cell walls using liquid nitrogen. Later a heart valve, preserved in liquid nitrogen, was dropped into a beaker of warm water and then transplanted into a patient. Why wasn't the frozen heart valve ruined by the cold temperatures? If body parts frozen to cryogenic temperatures can be thawed and transplanted, why is there a problem with thawing an entire body? Joseph W. Morgan ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C107C7.6549B460 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16927