China Lab Exploring How To Freeze Humans, Stop Ageing And Bring Dead Back To Life
The cryonics institute is teaming up with the University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui province to research on preservation of pancreatic cells, as well as with Shandong University¡¯s Qilu Hospital on the preservation of ovarian cells.
Cryonics -- the field of freezing the human body till a time arises where technology will be capable of bringing people back to life and helping people live for longer.
We¡¯ve been seeing institutes around the world offering cryogenic services to people after their death to one day revive them and now, China has one too, and it¡¯s getting pretty popular.
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The Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research is the first and, for now, the only cryonics research centre in China and one of only four such centres all over the world. They offer services like cryonic suspension -- allowing human bodies to be preserved at freezing cold temperatures -- however, along with this, it is also revolutionising organ transplants, among other life-threatening treatments with the help of cryonics.
Aaron Drake, director of Yinfeng¡¯s clinical response centre in a conversation with South China Morning Post explains, how the human heart only gets six hours before it starts to die, after its owner's death but with cryonics, this time can be extended, ¡°Consider if you could extend that from six hours to six days during which the organ is stored in an ultra-cold environment and continues to be perfused [have blood circulating through it] ¨C then you will have all the time in the world. China is the first country that¡¯s taking this on and Yinfeng is leading in this research area. China might leapfrog over everyone else because they¡¯ve taken a new approach.¡±
The cryonics institute is teaming up with the University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui province to research on preservation of pancreatic cells, as well as with Shandong University¡¯s Qilu Hospital on the preservation of ovarian cells.
According to Drake, each organ has a different temperature and condition that works best for them. And this variance is also present in the technique of preserving it cryonically.
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Drake highlights other ways their cryonics tech can actually freeze time to offer patients the necessary care despite time constraint.
In one example he states people who have heart attacks or strokes can have their body cooled in a hypothermic environment to prevent tissue damage. Even soldiers who experience limb amputation can be frozen in a hypothermic environment to be taken to a specialised medical facility for reattachment and not lose their limb forever.
It's no doubt that freezing essential organs and human tissues to preserve them for longer and give people a chance to survive offers lots of medical benefits, but slowing down ageing and ultimately making humans immortal or come back from the dead may be out of scientific reach at the moment, may be even too sci-fi a notion. But there's no doubt that the Chinese cryonics research is an exciting new