[ExI] steve's research

[William Flynn Wallace]

What's the coldest human tissues can stand and still be viable when thawed
(or in Roz's terminology 'unthawed')?  I know that sperm and ova can be
frozen for quite some time and still work.

Why can't larger tissues do the same?

Have you read Heinlein's Fear No Evil?  Male brain in a female body.

bill w

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com>
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> >…He was an occasional poster here for a long time…  BillW I regret you
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> Correction to previous, Steve van Sickle was an occasional ExI poster a
> long time ago.  I don’t recall his posting here for perhaps 15 yrs now, but
> he was on the local cryonics forum.
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> Steve’s research was in gas infusion into tissues as a means of preserving
> kidneys and other transplantable organs.  Transplant therapy would be so
> much more practical if we had a means of preserving entire organs by some
> means, so that they had a shelf life of a few weeks rather than a few hours.
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> Everyone understood of course the long term goal is preserving brain
> tissue, ideally entire brains.  Imagine a brain on the shelf for a few
> weeks, young victim takes one thru la cabeza, out with the destroyed
> tissue, in I go, patch the two holes where the bullet went in and went out,
> stem cell miracle to reconnect the spinal cord, a year or two of physical
> therapy for my brain to find and figure out how to control her muscles, a
> young healthy athletic body we have.
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> Or a smart old already-educated STEM-enabled brain with a terrific
> attitude she has, a body happy to be still walking, a brain happy to be
> still thinking.  I guess it would all depend on how you look at it.
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> We would make a great team, simultaneously smart and attrac…  eh… OK do
> let me rethink that last part a bit.  A female body would have its
> advantages (women live longer) but also its challenges: it might attract
> all the wrong people.
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