X-Message-Number: 6876
From: Brian Wowk <>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:43:58 -0500
Subject: Licensing

In <5111lr$>  (Randy Smith) writes:

>>CRYONICS LICENSING AGREEMENT: In return for help in funding their further
>>research, the Vissers have given CI and Alcor exclusive license to use their
>>present and future technology for cryonics purposes. This includes the right
>>to sub-license. 

>Is this worth looking at, Brian?

	Licensing is necessary to sell a product, not to investigate or 
further refine it.  Once the Visser method is published, anyone will
be able to participate in its evaluation and development.  Still, I'm
glad she's allowing CI and Alcor an early opportunity to test her
method on brains.  The results obtained, if positive, will add yet 
another technical resource to the Prometheus Project. 

	As to the method itself, I confess I do not understand how the 
rat heart result justifies the claim that a single cryoprotective agent
will allow the "perfect cryopreservation of each and every organ in
the body (including the brain)... in TWO YEARS FLAT" (emphasis added).
How can one even begin to evaluate such an extraordinary claim in absence
of supporting information?  I truly hope the paper appears soon, so that
these claims can be discussed in detail.  Perhaps Ms. Visser should
re-submit to CryoLetters, which has much more liberal editorial policies
than Cryobiology. 

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Brian Wowk          CryoCare Foundation               1-800-TOP-CARE
President           Human Cryopreservation Services   
   http://www.cryocare.org/cryocare/

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