X-Message-Number: 20881
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:44:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: "only"

Bob Ettinger writes:

"They have only revived kidneys after cooling to around -50 C, not cold
enough for vitrification."

The insertion of the word "only" is interesting. If the achievement that
Bob describes is true (it has not been publicly acknowledged by the lab,
so far as I know) it represents an achievement which had been considered
impossible for four or five decades, since the establishment of
cryobiology as a field of science.

I look forward to similar announcements that a 100% viable kidney has been
recovered from -150 Celsius, except that it was "only" a kidney; followed
of course by announcements that a rabbit brain has been recovered from a
similar temperature, except that it was "only" a rabbit.

--CP

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