Re: SCIENCE: Prion diseases explained

From: FutureQ (futureq@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 03:56:16 MDT


Eugene,

But do you feel that in the case of mad cow could the remaining tissue of
dead neurons might be rebuilt by nanotech or does the body/brain reabsorb
the dead tissue? In other words is there any hope at all of perhaps the
trackways remaining, or some kind of physical remnant of the depleted
neurons, some hint as to structure? I have no knowledge of how the disease
presents the remaining brain tissue so I am asking perhaps a dumb question
but that is how one learns.

FutureQ

Eugen Leitl wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, FutureQ wrote:
>
> > There's a young woman, the only american, with mad cow disease. My
> > question is, is there anything left of "her" to be cryonicaly
> > suspended?
>
> Have a look at most terminal cases while taking a stroll through your
> typical home for the elderly. There is not much to suspend in most such
> cases.



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