X-Message-Number: 5384
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: Hey, did anyone see this?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 13:09:08 +1100 (EST)

New Scientist Magazine, 2 December 1995, "In Brief" has a mention of
a cyropreservation advance by a group of researchers, Olga Visser,
Dirk du Plessis, Pierre Cilliers and Chris Steinman at the H. F.
Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa. 

New Scientist reports that they've developed a cryopreservant liquid
which does not expand during freezing, and which is suitable for 
liquid nitrogen preservation of whole organs. The article suggests
that this opens the way to organ banks, but it doesn't describe
the group's procedures or the nature of the cryopreservant.

Do any of the luminaries here know anything about these folks?

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