X-Message-Number: 6379 From: (David L Evens) Newsgroups: sci.cryonics Subject: Re: Importance of Brain Cryopreservation Date: 23 Jun 1996 23:21:50 GMT Message-ID: <4qkjie$> References: <> <4q9kjb$> wrote: : Do I understand correctly that kidneys can now be preserved : using vitrification? If so are the organ banks currently : making use of this technology? The currently completed research only takes the kidneys down to about -40C, which isn't really cold enough for long-term storage, and the technology isn't well enough developed yet for implementation on a large scale. I expect that shortly after the two scientists who own the patents on the various patented pieces of the technology are able to get the beuracracy sorted out and get working on this together, organ banking will be at the kind of level Niven wrote about withing a few years. The real question is: Will vitrification be a general enough procedure to allow whole organisms to be vitrified and rewarmed and revived? If so, then it will also be possible to put waiting organ recipients into suspension to await organs when they become so ill that death is imminent without an immediate transplant that isn't available. ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Ring around the neutron, | "OK, so he's not terribly fearsome. A pocket full of positrons,| But he certainly took us by surprise!" A fission, a fusion, +-------------------------------------------------- We all fall down! | "Was anybody in the Maquis working for me?" ---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- "I'd cut down ever Law in England to get at the Devil!" "And what man could stand up in the wind that would blow once you'd cut down all the laws?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message may not be carried on any server which places restrictions on content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-mail will be posted as I see fit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6379