X-Message-Number: 12480 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:01:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: comments Darwin In Message #12475 wrote: > Again, he berates us for failing to recognize the magnitude of the > recent advances, or to act on that recognition. Yet again I note that > much information is still not available to us, > I don't usually like to go out of my way to agree with Mike myself, but in this case I think he does have a point. For example much information on the superiority of ethylene glycol over glycerol, particularly for organ preservation is available on the net. Just go to Pubmed at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed and do a combined search on ethylene glycol and cryopreservation. The main reason for the superiority of ethylene glycol is its much greater or faster penetration into tissue. Glycerol simply isn't in the same league, and is greatly inferior for cryopreservation purposes. I beleive Mike has also done some work on this. The next advance for cryonics was made a long time ago by cryobiologists, and their work is available in abstract form on Pubmed. The full research reports unfortunately are available only in medical journals, but these are an enlightening read as well. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12480