CryoNet #31954 - #31959

CryoNet - Fri 11 Sep 2009

    #31954: Re: Research could prevent stroke's damage [John de Rivaz]
    #31956: Nanosolar gets $4 billion in contracts [Mathew Sullivan]
    #31957: CAS freezing [Brian Wowk]
    #31958: Re: CAS process for transplant organ preservation [Jeff Davis]
    #31959: To Jeff Davis re: owada [rr ss]

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Message #31954
From: "John de Rivaz" <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Research could prevent stroke's damage
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:36:36 +0100

This is encouraging if the drugs can be delivered by mouth and aren't dependent on careful diagnosis. (That is to say it doesn't matter giving them to someone who turns out to be ill from some other cause.) But anything that requires scans or other detailed professional intervention isn't going to work simply because it isn't possible to set up an infrastructure that will react quickly enough to an emergency that is fairly common. If someone has to wait a week or more for professional diagnosis there will be too much repair work to be done.

I notice that there are plenty of thyme supplement products for sale. It would be amazing (and therefore unlikely) if there are already pills in herbalist shops that would cure strokes and no one has noticed.

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Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
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Message #31956
From: Mathew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:03:56 -0400
Subject: Nanosolar gets $4 billion in contracts

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/nanosolar/

Eat your heart out Mark:)

Mathew

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Message #31957
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:35:18 -0700
Subject: CAS freezing
From: Brian Wowk <[email protected]>

        Re:

"One very simple demonstration of CAS freezing and how it prevents ice
crystal formation is that it can freeze a full glass bottle of water.
The water level remains the same, the glass does not break, and the
water is crystal clear except for a few bubbles."

This strains credulity.  If pure water could really solidify into a
structure other than Ice 1h in macroscopic volumes at normal
atmospheric pressure, we'd be reading about it in Nature magazine.
CAS freezers have been around long enough for such a phenomenon to be
noticed and published by Japanese physicists.

---Brian Wowk

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Message #31958
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:14:27 -0700
Subject: Re: CAS process for transplant organ preservation
From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>

> Message #31950
> From: "Leo" <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE #31946
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:22:39 +0200
>
> Looks similar as something I posted years ago. I find interesting an old 2006 article here.

> http://foodreview.ihs.com/news/2006/re-invention-freezer.htm


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I extracted the email contact info from the ABI website Leo provided
inn a previous post, and sent this request for info:

Gentlemen,

Allow me to apologize.  I am not able to write or speak Japanese.

I am seeking technical data about the CAS process.  In particular, I
would like to know of research into transplant organ preservation
using the CAS process.

In the following article:

Food Engineering - The re-invention of the freezer?

http://foodreview.ihs.com/news/2006/re-invention-freezer.htm

...at the end it says:

"It has other applications, too, with five Japanese unlversities
investigating it for human organ freezing. Progress so far indicates
that although the CAS freezing process freezes to a high degree of
perfection, the secret is in defrosting the organ as this is where
some damage occurs. If this research is successful it will change the
medical transplant business forever."

Could you provide contact details for the researchers at the five
universities cited, so that I may inquire regarding the results of
their research.

Thank you for your assistance.

Respectfully, Jeff Davis


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I will update you when I receive a reply.

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Note that the bit about organ preservation cites damage coincident
with rewarming.

A discussion regarding rewarming problems would be useful.

Best, Jeff Davis

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Message #31959
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:01:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: rr ss <[email protected]>
Subject: To Jeff Davis re: owada

fascinating technology, there, Jeff. Thanks very much for bringing this to the attention of the cryonics community!

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