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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:18:06 -0500
Subject: genetically engineered cryo-protection

Here's an off-the-wall thought:

If scientists could identify that snipit of dna in arctic fish which 
codes for the very protein which prevents them from becoming "fishicles",
would it then be possible to impregnate it into a good many cells of
the human body via the techniques of genetic engineering?
I can imagine scientists attaching this snipit to the dna of some benign
virus and unleashing it invivo where the machinations of the virus would
permit it to take up residence in human cells - perhaps as a plasmid.
Needless to say, an individual, so infected, would have a decided 
advantage as a cryo-preservation candidate.

/gary

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