X-Message-Number: 10758 From: "Trygve B. Bauge" <> Subject: Cell samples. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 12:48:53 +0100 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01BE0E3A.CDACD2A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In those cases where live cells can not be harvested, or stored in a way that preserve their life, and the only option is to store DNA from dead cells, what are the best options for doing so? Would anyone care to suggest any protocol for storing dead cell samples a) dry b) freeze dried c) in alchohol d) in embalming fluid, e) frozen f) otherwise. and what cells are the easiest to harvest so to cover the complete genetic code of the diseased? Has any research been done on to what extent a persons DNA can be found in hair, nails, bones, and blood? In particular what part of a person's DNA is lacking from each of the above sources? Would such sample compliment one another and add up to a source of the person's complete DNA makeup? The question is real in such cases where a body is destroyed, but prior blood and hair samples etc. might still exist. Ps. The 32 year old in Mandal did not prevail. Her uncle became violent against her, and her father had the phone disconnected, so that she could not call out from the family home. She was not permitted to even take hair samples of her mother!!!! She lives in a small coast town, where everyone knows everyone and where her father and uncle are good friends with both her mother's doctor, the local police and the undertaker etc... The moral is: If you are in favour of cryonics, be sure to team up with others that share your interest. Now she is attempting to find out if the hospital has taken and preserved cell or blood samples from her mother. The hospital has just told her to speak to her mother's doctor who is a good friend of her uncle.... Of course if her inlaws find out that such examples exist they might try quite vigourously to have such destroyed as well. If I was her, I would move! Life-Extension Systems, Norwegian Icebathing Association & Action 88. For a VHS video presentation of my work, send $50 to Trygve B.Bauge c/o Aksjon 88, P.o.b.59 Hovseter,0705 Oslo,Norway Ph 47-2214-8078 E-mail: http://www.powertech.no/~trygveb/ [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] ------=_NextPart_000_0047_01BE0E3A.CDACD2A0 Content-Type: text/html; Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10758