X-Message-Number: 43 From: Kevin Q. Brown Subject: CryoMed, CryoGerman, CryoSalamander, CryoMas Date: 6 Dec 1988 The Nov. 1988 issue of The Immortalist had several items of interest: Paul Segall (of ACS & Trans Time) and associates Hal Sternberg, Harry Waitz, et al. have formed the company Cryomedical Sciences, Inc. with funding over half a million dollars. Since the initial stages of cryonic suspension (perfusion with cryoprotectants) are also useful in clinical medicine (for hypothermic bloodless surgery), preparing organs for transplant, and other fairly standard medical procedures, this company has a good potential for attracting business from the medical community. The Immortalist pointed out that the company also provides good PR for cryonics by showing that "cryonics research involves respectable and productive people." Klaus Reinhard, of Kiel, West Germany, recently founded (with some other Germans) "Gesellschaft fur die naturwissenschaftliche Herausforderung des Todes" (Society for the Scientific Challenge of Death). In 1987, Orac (Vienna) published his book "Wie der Mensch den Tod besiegt" (How Man Conquers Death). For more information, write to: Klaus Reinhard, Beseleralle 19, D-2300 Kiel 1, West Germany Page 34 of the Oct. 22, 1988 issue of New Scientist reported that Soviet scientists had revived an Asiatic salamander that had been frozen 90 years. (These Salamanders normally live only 10 years.) Simply placing the salamander in cold water was sufficient to revive it. Why does this work for salamanders but not for humans? "The animal has the biggest liver for its body size of all vertebrates - nearly one-third of its body weight. When the temperature falls, glycogen stored in the liver is converted into glycerine and spreads throughout the body, where it acts as an 'antifreeze'." The salamander can apparently survive temperatures down to -40 C. The Immortalist also promoted various "CryoMas" gifts including $12.00 ($15.00 overseas) gift subscriptions (for people other than yourself) to The Immortalist, $10.00 paperback copies of Engines of Creation, $7.00 hardcover copies of Ettinger's "The Prospect of Immortality", and $10.00 hardcover copies of Ettinger's "Man into Superman". To order, write (your checks) to: Immortalist Society, 24443 Roanoke, Oak Park, MI 48237 [I recently had another "CryoMas" stocking-stuffer idea when reading my latest Miles Kimball catalog. When I saw that they offered PERSONALIZED bumper stickers, I was immediately inspired to order a supply proclaiming "DEATH AND TAXES - JUST SAY NO"! (Credit for the sentiment goes to a Libertarian/cryonicist friend of mine.)] - Kevin Q. Brown ...{att|clyde|cuae2}!ho4cad!kqb Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=43