X-Message-Number: 4980 Date: 13 Oct 95 16:22:31 EDT From: DOLINOFF <> Subject: reversible freezing of an human heart I have read in the french newspaper FRANCE-SOIR of Monday, October 9, 1995, the following : "At the VERWOERD HOSPITAL of PRETORIA, in the South AFRICA, Dr Olga VISSER has found a cry-protective agent that has allowed to return back to life after thawing, an human heart which has been frozen in LN2 The first tests have been made on pig hearts in August with this cryoprotector. An human heart has been after this frozen, thawed and revived. However, it has not been reimplanted in a human organism " I dont endorse the responsibility of this information. Anatole Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4980