[ExI] Hibernation on demand

[Tom Nowell]

"John Grigg wrote:

I wonder if this technique, or something similar, will ever be used by NASA?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7588904/"


It's probably referencing the latest research involving the DADLE group of leu-encephalins. I remember reading a few years back that researchers had succeeded in making a species of prairie dog that doesn't hibernate (but is in the same genus as a species that does hibernate) enter hibernation by using DADLE, which was the most impressive case of making a mammal hibernate at that time. I think it got quoted by the Journal of the british interplanetary society.

A quick web search for "DADLE journal british interplanetary" brings me to the space archaelogy wiki page
 http://www.spacearchaeology.org/wiki/index.php?title=Journal_of_the_British_Interplanetary_Society

 
March/April 2006 issue includes 3 papers on hibernation, as well as Gregory Benford on beamed energy space propulsion. Sounded like a good issue. I'd better see if I can get some overtime at work so I can afford to join the BIS and subscribe to the journal.

Tom