X-Message-Number: 7499 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 07:04:52 +0100 (MET) From: Trygve Bauge <> Subject: Feedback sought on research at Pretoria university. On the 14th of May 1996 the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet carried the following article: (In translation:) Medical doctors at the Pretoria University in South Africa have found a new chemical mixture that enables the cryonic preservation of hearths, kidneys and livers. The organs can later be thawed and used as transplants. So far the method has only been used on organs from rats and mice, but later this year (1996) it will be tried out on the hearth of a pig. The new technology might constitute a breakthrough for transplant-surgery. Organs kan be stored for a long time enabling a more thourogh testing of the tissue type thereby preventing rejection by the recipient. (end of article.) If anyone has any more feedback on the above technology, please let me know. Trygve Bauge <> Ps. Unrelated of the above story, 2 Norwegian newspapers are presently working on articles about cryonics. I have told them about the Cryonet mailinglist and about the following newsgroups: alt.sci.cryonics, alt.sci.life-extension and alt.sci.nanotechnology, and about the extropian mailinglist The newspapers Gateavisa, (an alternative paper) and the newspaper Verdens Gang, (Norways largest) both seem to treat the topic seriously. If anyone would like to provide any information for the two reporters please e-mail such to me, and I will forward it. I am meeting with the reporter from Gateavise at 2 am Tuesday January the 14th and with the reporter from Verdens Gang at 6pm Thursday January the 16th. (Norwegian time, which is about 9 hours ahead of California time.) For your information I attach how one can subscribe to the Extropian mailinglist: Extropian mailing list: It still exists and is busy. You can subscribe via the Web. Go to http://www.extropy.org then use the link to the Extropian e-mail list sub site. Or, send a request to: * Life Extension systems, Norw.Icebathing Club & Action 88/Residental Assoc. * at Hovseterv.88. For a licensed diskcopy of my Life Extension manual, send * $20+your address to Trygve Bauge, Apt.9029 Hovseterv.88, 0768 Oslo, Norway * http://www.PowerTech.No/TrygveB~/ 011-47-22-14-8078 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7499