• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Are there any even half plausible ways cryogenics might work with the technology we have? I mean, if they’re frozen their cells are ruptured.

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      6 months ago

      I mean, if they’re frozen their cells are ruptured. Not strictly true, biologists freeze cells all the time.

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      6 months ago

      Yeah - its all bullshit. Just a pie in the sky thing to sell to people with lots of money. Reminds me of the Pharaohs being buried with all their shit as if they would live again and still have all their stuff

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      3 months ago

      Not current tech. The expectation is to make it work on xcca 50-100 years. See an interview with Emil Kendziorra, founder of Tomorrow Bio, the leading European cryopreservation provider 👇 https://youtu.be/pTVwFKvGYeM

      Also, with current technology of preservation they make sure to make as little ice crystals as possible. So they are using cryoprotectants and then induce vitrification.

      Vitrification is proven to be reversible for small size things. Even human embryos. A rat kidney is currently the biggest thing to be vitrified, then reversed, implanted and working. We are scaling up, but it will take decades to be working on adult human bodies.