BigZ
Well-Known Member
Kudos to the lab mice and bunnies giving their lives for the research.
Read an article the other day about the Evil Russian Military Developments (tm), was kinda waiting to see if anyone translates it to link, but so far no bueno.
Basically the russkies made significant progress on the drug that's being developed to expand the survivability window for the battle wounds. The theory is that the aid administered in the first 60 minutes or so provides for the best chances of survival with the odds dropping off sharply after that. So some big brain thought "what if we can medically induce hibernation and double or triple that window of opportunity".
So far the drug made it to mice/bunnies trials and appears to work as advertised. Gruesome as the trials are, considerable good can come out of it for battle/accidental wound survivability, but it would also be interesting to see if (way, way) down the road it can be applied for the lengthy space travel.
Twenty-some years ago I spent some time in a hospital getting patched up, and had some interesting conversations with a girl who was working on suspended animation in a deep freeze lab. According to what she told me, they had no problem turning bunnies and rats into a block of ice and then thawing them back to life, except the process was destructive for the liver cells and the subjects would shortly die due to liver failure.
Hibernation might end up being a great interim solution. Human trials are expected in three years, provided pigs do as well as the rodents.
Read an article the other day about the Evil Russian Military Developments (tm), was kinda waiting to see if anyone translates it to link, but so far no bueno.
Basically the russkies made significant progress on the drug that's being developed to expand the survivability window for the battle wounds. The theory is that the aid administered in the first 60 minutes or so provides for the best chances of survival with the odds dropping off sharply after that. So some big brain thought "what if we can medically induce hibernation and double or triple that window of opportunity".
So far the drug made it to mice/bunnies trials and appears to work as advertised. Gruesome as the trials are, considerable good can come out of it for battle/accidental wound survivability, but it would also be interesting to see if (way, way) down the road it can be applied for the lengthy space travel.
Twenty-some years ago I spent some time in a hospital getting patched up, and had some interesting conversations with a girl who was working on suspended animation in a deep freeze lab. According to what she told me, they had no problem turning bunnies and rats into a block of ice and then thawing them back to life, except the process was destructive for the liver cells and the subjects would shortly die due to liver failure.
Hibernation might end up being a great interim solution. Human trials are expected in three years, provided pigs do as well as the rodents.