X-Message-Number: 3649
From:  (Bryce Burchett)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Natural Anti-Freeze
Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:57:05 GMT
Message-ID: <3epg2h$>

I have never read this group before, so this may be old news...

I just saw a bit on CNN Headline News, about a fish (fishes?) in the 
antartic, that have a natural anti-freeze that is "300 times stronger 
than anything scientists have artificialy created". It somehow coats ice 
crystals as they form. (I guess all anti-freeze probably works this way) 
There is only a small amount in even *very* large fish; about an ounce or 
two, but they have "artificially replicated" the gene in labs.
I am pretty sure this would be of use in cryonics/cryogenics. As far as 
I know, this has never been injected in animals, so I don't know how it 
would affect them.

  1/8/95

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