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Top boffins in the States believe that they may be on the track of a way to place living human beings into suspended animation, allowing them to survive long periods effectively frozen before being "reanimated" with no ill effects.
Dr Mark Roth, based at a Seattle cancer laboratory, got interested in suspended animation after looking at several cases where this has occurred spontaneously in humans.
Suspended-animation cold sleep achieved in lab
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Yeasts and worms, like humans, will normally simply die if they are chilled down past a certain point. But Roth and his colleagues have found that if the little creatures are starved of oxygen before turning on the cold, they will go into suspended animation from which they recover on warming and go on to live normal yeasty or wormy lives.
futurama here we come
#1 - Fri Jun 11, 2010 8:53 AM EDTAmazing! This could have major implications for future medical treatment, etc.
Below is a link to a similar article on ScienceDaily.com about this.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100610171714.htm
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#2 - Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:21 PM EDTHow long can someone be in this state, and if left that way for a long time, wouldn't they run the risk of being forgotten, due to deaths of key people in charge, lost records ecetera? Pretty risky idea, I think.
Short term for medical reasons, along with in-depth documentation...maybe it's great. At any rate it's fascinating to say the least. Vi Vi ^ ^
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