X-Message-Number: 865
Date: Fri, 29 May 92 16:53:51 -0700
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Subject: baboon revived!


                       BRING 'EM BACK ALIVE!


BioTime, Inc. has just issued the following press release:

Berkeley, California, May 29 1992.  BioTime Inc. has, for the first
time, successfully revived a baboon following a procedure in which
the animal's deep body temperature was lowered to near-freezing and
its blood was replaced with BioTime's patent-pending blood-
substitute solution.
    The animal was anesthetized, immersed in ice and cooled to
below 2 degrees Celsius, using the BioTime solution with
cardiopulmonary bypass procedures.  After being bloodless and below
10 degrees Centigrade for 55 minutes, the animal was rewarmed and
revived.  The baboon is presently under study by BioTime scientists
to determine any long-term physical effects.
    The company intends to conduct further experiments on primates,
using its blood-substitute solutions.

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Further information from Art Quaife (of Trans Time, not BioTime):

Over the past five years, we have had a number of similar successes
with dogs, including recovery from four and one half hours of cold
washout.  Now we are scaling up one step closer to humans.  Four
more baboon experiments are planned over the next few months, in
which we will attempt to extend the washout time.

The principal experimenters were Dr. Paul Segall, Dr. Hal
Sternberg, Dr. Harold Waitz, and Judy Segall.  All are officers or
advisors of Trans Time, Inc.  Trans Time has the right to use
BioTime's solutions for cryonics purposes, and indeed these are the
solutions we use in the cryonic suspension of our patients.  The
experimenters were ably assisted by the expert staff of a private
research laboratory, whose personnel also assist Trans Time in
cryonic suspensions.

Trans Time owns shares of BioTime that are currently trading on the
NASDAQ for more than $340,000. Of course we hope that this exciting
development will increase the value of BioTime.  Trans Time's own
offering of stock closes on June 30.  [ ... This note is not an offer
to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy Trans Time securities. - KQB ]
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