X-Message-Number: 2190
Date: 01 May 93 11:54:56 EDT
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: C.elegans experiment

To: Cryonet

As Christopher Rasch mentions in the outline of his 
experiment, c.elegans can be "trained" to a very rudimentary 
extent by giving it a negative stimulus--a series of short, 
sharp taps. 

This being so, it seems to me that the experiment would be 
much more interesting if it investigated whether the training 
thus administered is remembered after the worms are frozen 
and revived. There have been many experiments freezing and 
resuscitating biological specimens. But I don't know of 
anyone who has proved that memory can survive the trip to low 
temperatures and back again. 

Is there some problem which I don't know about, which would 
make this hard to do?

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