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Small mammals up to the size of hamsters can successfully be cryogenically frozen and revived significantly later. So while the same thing working on small sam
by Retric 2y ago
Small mammals up to the size of hamsters can successfully be cryogenically frozen and revived significantly later. So while the same thing working on small samples of human tissue is completely expected it’s still useful research for organ transplants etc.
All that cryogenic preservation that showed in science fiction is somewhat realistic even if we can’t do it yet and it’s probably going to require extensive surgery beforehand to enable rapid cooling.
- lisper 2y ago> Small mammals up to the size of hamsters can successfully be cryogenically frozen and revived significantly later. Reference?
- sanxiyn 2y agohttps://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1956.0054 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1956.0054 (Yes, it's the same James Lovelock.)
- lisper 2y agoThanks. (Those poor hamsters!)
- blincoln 2y agoThat reads more like surviving extreme hypothermia than being frozen and thawed in the sense of cryogenic preservation. The greater the percentage of water in their body that was frozen, the less likely they were to survive, with some precipitous cliffs around 50% and 75%. Am I misreading it?