Suspended Animation?

From: Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 16:21:09 MDT


All,

Found this on the Beeb site;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/festival_of_science/
newsid_920000/920778.stm

>Humans might one day be able to enter a state
> of "suspended animation" by studying the
> secrets of the echidna, one of the oldest
> surviving mammals in the world.
>

Sounds interesting, and Dr Rismiller says this;

>If we could naturally lower metabolism, then it
> would be of great benefit for medical purposes
> and secondly looking at space travel and
> things like that.
>

....although she mentions it in the context of surgery, not cryonics.

All the same, might prove useful.

James...

 
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