X-Message-Number: 12537 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 23:42:47 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Fox News Cryonics Article Kennita Watson, #12532, writes >The cryonics article on Fox News is no longer on the front page, >but as a "Fox News Special" is accessible from http://www.foxnews.com >by pressing the "Sci-Tech" menu item on the left, or at >http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/100899/cryonics.sml. > >I think it's a pretty good article, and not just because my name >is in it. I'd be interested to hear from people whether they think >it will be good for cryonics. > I looked, and overall it seemed to be good, at least relative to other "mainstream" articles on cryonics I've seen. But I found myself amused by the following: >While cryonic centers like to boast about the high numbers of scientists among >their current and future patients, the concept has found few followers among >those who specialize in freezing living tissue--cryobiologists. > >Peter Mazur spends his time at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in >Tennessee finding ways to freeze reproductive and organ tissues one cell at a >time. He likens the prospect of successfully reviving an entire frozen human >body, or even brain, to taking a hamburger and making it back into a living >cow. That old quip about making hamburger into a cow has turned, I think, into a weapon *we* can use, in view of cloning. A steer was cloned recently, wasn't it? Cattle have been cloned from adult cells. "Hamburger" is a type of cell sample. You *can* get a cow from hamburger. Maybe someone ought to point this out specifically to the media, at the next opportunity. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12537