X-Message-Number: 15241 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:11:13 -0500 From: Saul Kent <> Subject: Ettinger's Wrong Assumption In msg #15227, in which Bob Ettinger reviews the paper "Permanent Life Support by Kidneys Perfused with a Vitrifiable (7.5 Molar) Cryoprotectant Solution" by Bijan S. Kheirabadi and Gregory M. Fahy (Transplantation, Vol. 70, 51-57, No. 1, July 15, 2000), Ettinger makes the following assumption: "The paper discussed today is only about six months old, based on work probably only about a year old." This assumption is wrong. Actually, the research described in the paper is much older than that, as stated explicitly in the "Acknowledgments" section of the paper: "This research was performed at the Transplantation Laboratory of the American Red Cross's Jerome Holland Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland from 1988 through 1989." ---Saul Kent, Chairman of the Board 21st Century Medicine Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15241