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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7718