In all, five rats received a vitrified-then-thawed kidney in a study whose results were published this month in Nature Communications. It’s the first time scientists have shown it’s possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from this icy metabolic arrest.
Somebody come get me when a science institution can and will take volunteer brains for testing cryonics.
I’ll even take the risk that they won’t be able to integrate revived brains into anything useful before temperatures and disasters get insane. If they can, I’m sure living/assisting in the sea or space (or any environment not suitable for humans) would be neat.
If it can be as self-sufficient as a biological body, give me a cyborg body the size of a toaster. Though I’d be interested in trying many other forms of existence (as-needed) if it were a hot-swappable sort-of-thing.
Considering you can freeze a whole mouse and have them survive after unfrozen, but not a human, I wonder how well this will carry over.
