To Save Soldiers on The Battlefield, Darpa Invests in Suspended Animation
An active battlefield is a really inconvenient place to lose a lot of blood. But naturally that's exactly where soldiers sustain the bulk of their life-threatening injuries,…
View ArticleTED Talk: Mark Roth Says Suspended Animation Could Soon Be a Reality
It used to be that suspended animation was only for people heading to Planet LV-426, and former Red Sox players. But Mark Roth, a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer…
View ArticleTiny Buckyballs Could Put Fast-Spreading Cancer Cells into Suspended Animation
Adorable buckyballs can act as soccer-ball-shaped molecular cages to deliver designer drugs or even radioactive particles to attack diseases such as cancer. Now scientists…
View ArticleHow It Works: Putting Humans In Suspended Animation
"Suspended animation" -- literally putting life on hold -- has long been a medical dream. (The preferred scientific term for the procedure is emergency preservation and…
View ArticleSuspended Animation In Space Travel: What Scientists Still Need To Learn
The first astronauts who head off to Mars might make the entire 180-day journey while theyâre fast asleep. In a NASA-commissioned study on human stasis, aerospace…
View ArticleThe Week In Numbers: Secret Robot Space Planes, Elephant Weathermen, And...
10: Percent of people who are frightened of needles. They could benefit from a new technology which may make injections pain-free. 6: Episodes in the first season of a new…
View ArticleSuspended Animation Gets Real
Surgeons and sci-fi writers have long explored the idea of chilling humans in order to save them. Now emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR)âcolloquially known as…
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