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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5697