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[GoodFellas]

What crynoics progressions can we expect within a 2-3 year time frame?

Also, will the price lower or rise in the future?

Edited by GoodFellas, 05 September 2010 - 06:40 PM.

[GoodFellas]

Any thoughts about this?

[forever freedom]

Probably no progression. Cryonics companies have very little R&D budgets, and progress made by independent scientists/companies that can be applied to cryonics takes time to integrate to cryonics companies' procedures.

10 years from now, i don't think there will be much difference from today in this area.

[AgeVivo]

It would be nice to have someone explain *clearly* the current technical limits to solve (apart from acting fast and with the good tools).

If things to technically improve can be explained very clearly in 5 words and in 4 lines, then people may start to think of them and test improvements (on pieces of meat first, for example). Otherwise this field remains a hidden world that noone can improve.

[bgwowk]

Recently I posted this summary of cryonics research history

http://www.imminst.o...post__p__408451

The current technical limits are that technology does not presently exist to preserve large organs with viability (ability to spontaneously recover function) at cryogenic temperatures. The largest organs so far recovered from cryopreservation are dog intestines

http://www.ncbi.nlm....?dopt=Ab stract

and a rabbit kidney

http://www.21cm.com/...hyORG5-3[1].pdf

The best cryonics can do is achieve morphological preservation of tissue by vitrifying, or attempting to vitrify it. See

http://www.alcor.org...rification.html

for a simple explanation of vitrification. See

http://www.alcor.org.../cambridge.html

for a longer explanation of the technical issues and current state of art.

Cryonics procedures are not static. Alcor did a major technology upgrade as recently as 2005.

http://www.alcor.org...technology.html

Current research foci are improving the quality of brain ultrastructure preservation, as documented by electron microscopy, as a prelude to the development of demonstrably reversible brain preservation with retention of viability (ability to spontaneously recover function) by contemporary criteria. There is also some research going on in documenting and improving cryoprotectant distribution through the whole body for organizations that perfuse the whole body (right now Alcor only). Alcor has also been working on a fully computer-controlled cryoprotectant perfusion system for whole bodies that would be comparable to the sophisticated research perfusion systems that have previously been used only for isolated organs.

The most revolutionary new technology expected to come on the cryonics scene within the new few years, being developed by Suspended Animation, Inc., based on published research by Critical Care Research, Inc. is fluorocarbon liquid ventilation for accelerated post cardiac arrest cooling

http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/11719148