I saw this on my phone’s newsfeed a few minutes ago, thought “I should bring this up on LW”, and...have been beaten to it. Fooey.
The technique was first demonstrated in pigs in 2002
Twelve years since proof of concept and they’re only trying this now? Argleblarg. Sometimes I think my most likely cause of death will be the glacial pace of medical bureaucracy.
IMO this if (I hope!) successful, will go a long way to bridge the emotional gap for cryonics
Not to mention helping convince people who believe cryonics has a very low chance of success. I must confess that I’m in that camp. If this project goes well...well, it might not push me over the threshold, but it would certainly move the meter.
I hope the people at CI and Alcor are watching this closely. To my knowledge they haven’t tried to raise anyone yet, and thus can’t learn from the attempt. Presumably what this project learns will be relevant to what they do.
I saw this on my phone’s newsfeed a few minutes ago, thought “I should bring this up on LW”, and...have been beaten to it. Fooey.
Twelve years since proof of concept and they’re only trying this now? Argleblarg. Sometimes I think my most likely cause of death will be the glacial pace of medical bureaucracy.
Not to mention helping convince people who believe cryonics has a very low chance of success. I must confess that I’m in that camp. If this project goes well...well, it might not push me over the threshold, but it would certainly move the meter.
I hope the people at CI and Alcor are watching this closely. To my knowledge they haven’t tried to raise anyone yet, and thus can’t learn from the attempt. Presumably what this project learns will be relevant to what they do.