X-Message-Number: 19790 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:28:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Davis <> Subject: Cellular precision in cryoprotectant delivery Cryofolk, Don't get your hopes up. It isn't here yet. But,...it's on its way. The human body is just a huge colony of 'amoebas on a stick'. The real action is at the cellular level. And each of hundreds of cell types deserves its own custom cryopreservative cocktail delivered transmembrane, with precision and efficiency, to the cellular interior. How shamefully primitive is our 'modern' medical 'technology' (ptooie! Hardly deserves the name!) that indescriminantly flushes the body wholesale with some chemical, and then relies on the dumb and often feeble mechanism of simple diffusion to get it in useful quantities where it may do some good. But there is hope that, one day, we will put our shame behind us, a thing of the past. Important advances in the development of drug delivery vehicles http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/mu-iai080802.php Best, Jeff Davis "Everything's hard till you know how to do it." Ray Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19790