suspended animation
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Australia’s First Cryonics Lab is Opening But it’s a Battle of Faith and Science
Down the Hume Highway in New South Wales sits a tiny rural town, best known for its merino wool production. Holbrook has more livestock than residents but soon, if all goes according to plan, it’ll also be home to Australia’s first cryonics facility — making a few of those residents of the chilled variety. Cryonics…
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Doctors Are About To Start Human Trials For Suspended Animation
After years of sci-fi-inspired fantasies about the technique, a team of doctors in Pittsburgh are finally ready to start testing out a procedure that involves putting patients in a state of “suspended animation” while they repair their injuries. Put bluntly, they’re going to kill people and bring them back to life.