X-Message-Number: 2094
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: CRYONICS.more.on.immortal.mice
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 93 22:38:31 PDT




Hi again!

About the immortal mice described in the latest NATURE: the article seems to
be quite wrong. I've just come back from Stanford, where the Medical Library
is open until 10:00 tonight. The journals referred to, at least to judge 
from their absence in at least two indices of periodicals (Ulrich's 
International Periodicals Index) either do not exist or are EXTREMELY
obscure. There is one reference to a 1982 article in NATURE, written
anonymously, about the same stuff. That article is the only one I could find;
it is a news article rather than a paper, and refers to some of the same
journals as this latest one. The Institute where these people are claimed
to work is not in Tarzana, CA, nor is the college (or any college) which
houses this Institute.

I am writing to NATURE itself about this. I've always enjoyed the Dedalus
column, even back when it appeared in NEW SCIENTIST. But this article purports
to be true, a different thing altogether. Ho hum ... didn't I say once that
life was hard?
				Best and long life to all,
				    Thomas

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