jackofallgeeks | Suspended Animation, Again.

This
is an article relating to a topic I found some 6 to 8 months ago, namely
that of suspended animation. My first article talked about how it wasn't
the lack of oxygen that caused brain damage and the like to victime of
suffocation, but rather the rapid reintroduction of oxygen. This principle
was used to place mice in a sort of suspended animation where they could
survive having lost 70% of their blood, a feat which would be invaluable to
human soldiers if it could be extended to people. I'm not sure how, or if,
that relates to this new article which claime that Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)
can be used to put mice into a state of suspended animation where they can
survive extreme cold which would have killed them otherwise. The article
claims it helps explain how our "evolutionary ancestors" might have survived
the greatest of Earth's five periods of mass extinction, but also notes that
such a finding could revolutionize trauma medicine.

Personally, I'm still waiting for the DARPA scientists to unlock the key to
lizard-like regeneration in people. That'd be pretty cool.