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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

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