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From: Randy Smith <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: The Importance of Brain Cryopreservation
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:00:02 -0700
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Brian Wowk wrote:
    For cryonics purposes, once a brain is perfectly
> preserved at -130'C, you have all the time in the world
> to build rewarming technology.  Cryonics would be virtually
> certain to work.
> 
>         With today's cryonics technology (glycerol perfusion)
> we face a Hobson's choice between severe mechanical damage
> (low glycerol concentration) and dissolved cell membranes(!)
> (high glycerol concentration).  In short, the brains of
> today's patients are ultrastructurally a mess compared to
> vitrified kidneys.
> 
> ***************************************************************************
> Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
> President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
>    http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

I seem to recall you saying previously that present-day vitrification of 
a human brain is a "multi-million dollar slam dunk" by any number of 
large corporations or governments. Is this the 8 million dollars I also 
heard from you just a few days ago? Is there also a problem of getting 
all the right experts together in one place at the same time?

-- 
Randy Smith

do not go gentle into that good night
rage, rage against the dying of the light

Dylan Thomas


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