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