10/08/2008

Cryopreservation, hibernation, induced coma

• A solution for critical injuries and transplants
We are on the threshold of new technologies to study the feasibility-less-distant pause in our bodies.

But unlike the dark intentions of the novel by Cook, stop our biological clock could benefit those with critical injuries, preserve donor organs for transplants, fight cancer, given the opportunity to develop into a future therapies for diseases today incurable or, as the authors dream of science fiction, sleeping during decades of intergalactic flights to wake up fresh and alert at the destination.

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