X-Message-Number: 5697
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 08:07:05 -0500
From:  (Ralph Dratman)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #5693 - #5695

>*Much of BPI and 21CM work is contract work.  Almost all of the work is
>proprietary.  Course attendees will be required to sign a nondisclosure
>agreement which applies to *specific* drugs, technques and devices of a
>proprietary nature which are under development or in patent.

I was just beginning to wonder about this. To what extent are proprietary,
non-public cryopreservants and protocols superior to publicly announced
ones?

Are there actually some cryo patients who have received care that the rest
of us can't be told about?

This is a compelling issue to me, because I've been doing some thinking and
research about cryopreservation recently. I have some interesting ideas,
but lack of public disclosure of other people's work (NB: over an extended
period of time) could hold back progress and general understanding.

Comments?


Ralph Dratman



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