X-Message-Number: 2190 Date: 01 May 93 11:54:56 EDT From: Charles Platt <> Subject: C.elegans experiment To: Cryonet As Christopher Rasch mentions in the outline of his experiment, c.elegans can be "trained" to a very rudimentary extent by giving it a negative stimulus--a series of short, sharp taps. This being so, it seems to me that the experiment would be much more interesting if it investigated whether the training thus administered is remembered after the worms are frozen and revived. There have been many experiments freezing and resuscitating biological specimens. But I don't know of anyone who has proved that memory can survive the trip to low temperatures and back again. Is there some problem which I don't know about, which would make this hard to do? Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2190