X-Message-Number: 6007
From:  (Brian Wowk)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: frozen bacteria
Date: 30 Mar 96 21:17:33 GMT
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References: <4jhlbv$> 
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In <4jhvv8$> bob whitaker <> writes:

>  They unfroze some long-dead bacteria millions of years old 
>recently, and they're making 30,000-year-old beer from yeast 
>thought extinct.

	These extraordinary results are relevant to the question of
background radiation damage in cryonics patients.  True, yeast and
bacteria are more radio-resistant than eucaryotic cells, but they're
not THAT much more resistant!

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