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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder how this is going to advance the status of cryogenic freezing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It won't. That's simply not possible for an organism as large and complex as a human being. You can watch this for a more detailed explanation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not yet atleast, until human genetic engineering is legalized

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

How would that solve the issue presented in the paper the video mentions?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

One of the issues with cryonics in large animals is sufficiently saturating all of the tissues with cryoprotectants to prevent frostbite. Some have speculated that it might be possible to engineer an organism to produce it's own cryoprotectant proteins inside all of its cells, as some arctic fish and insects do.

That wouldn't help with getting even heat into all of the tissues for thawing though.