I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Great question, jguthridge.
Well, there are reports of both dogs and pigs being placed in suspended animation by freezing them and bringing them back to life. But this was only for short periods of time, just a few hours in both cases.
But this hasn’t been done in humans. The closest we get to it is the cooling that is sometimes used in major surgeries to slow the body’s functions, and to try and stop brain damage from occurring.
We definitely aren’t at the point yet where we can use cryogenics to freeze a person, and bring them back, but one day we might well be.
But the real question is, do we want to?
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To date, 250 people have frozen themselves! They are hopeful that scientist will overcome the obstacles in reviving frozen people.
It is a very expensive procedure, costing $10,000 for the head only to more than $250,000 for whole body cryopreservation!
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To be frozen and “hibernate” means being immortal. Scientists can (and in fact we do) freeze cells such as eggs and sperm for long periods of time.
As the ladies have mentioned, we are not there yet when it comes to freezing large (and live!) creatures, let alone humans. The cost atm is also a big factor.
So in summary: not yet!
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