X-Message-Number: 7718
From: Peter Merel <>
Subject: 21C Cooling Breakthrough
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 02:41:01 +1100 (EST)

Brian Wowk writes,

>This new (proprietary) technology opens for the first time the
>possibility of vitrifying humans with survivable concentrations
>of cryoprotectant. 

Congratulations!

This is astounding news, even to those who have followed the various
hints dropped by the CC crew here over the past year. The questions
are obvious, but I can't help myself:

- to what extent has this technology been proved? I'm not expecting
beating rat-hearts, but is there anything demonstrable at the present time?

- what obstacles does this leave for Prometheus to tackle? What will be
Prometheus's role in the further development of this technology?

- to be a little nosier, does the development of this technology have
any schedule that 21C feels comfortable revealing here?

- what sort of conditions will attach to licenses?

- presuming that this works out, what's 21C's most optimistic estimate
of the date of the first real cryonic resuscitation of a whole live animal?
Most pessimistic estimate?

Sorry to be so 'satiably curious, but I'm truly overjoyed to see this
news, and, like everyone here, most anxious to hear the details.

Peter Merel.


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