X-Message-Number: 8938
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:42:30 -0500
From: yvan Bozzonetti <>
Subject: Dead cow

About dead cow, John de Rivaz point out:

In article: <>  =

>> For most people 
>> cryonics is still a 'piece of a dead cow' rather than a tunnel to 
>> an exciting and fascinating future.
>
>An unfortunate analogy, given that eating dead animals seems to be a
highly 
>dangerous thing for cryonicists to do.
>
>Will nanotechnology be able to unravel a brain infested with rogue prions?


Prions are wrongly folded proteins acting as their own chaperone (folding
protein complex). A cure for prion could be a hard chaperone folding back
the rogue prion into the good form. It seems some bacterial chaperones are
the first source of prion folding, what a chaperone has done, another can
do the reverse. We may be five to ten years from such a solution and 100
years or more from cryonics useful nanotech. In fact, using chaperone
folding capacity could well be the first step towards a useful nanotech.
Seen that way, J. de Rivaz question takes an historical dimension.

        Yvan Bozzonetti.

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