X-Message-Number: 25518 From: Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:24:54 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #25506 - #25512 In a message dated 1/11/05 5:00:48 AM, writes: << http://www.nanoaging.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=839 >> I strongly recommend others look at this interesting story. I think it points in the direction organ transplant research is going, and it should have important longer term implications for us. One obvious research question: If these frogs can survive the winter, how long can they actually survive beyond that? months? years? Second question: how low does temperature go before revival is ruled out? With enough of these frogs it seems to me that both these questions can be answered with some degree of certainty. Then the same questions need to be asked about organs of higher animals as the frog chemical mix and process becomes understood (we hope.) Ramping up from organs to whole animals and from mice to humans may involve serious tgechnical problems but all within the range of known solution strategies. Unfortunately, neither of my two doctorates is in biology so I may be talking through my hat. Would anybody like to set me straight? Ron Havelock Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25518