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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3649