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Human hibernation? Brain ‘snooze button’ could help astronauts survive long-term space travel

Simon Makin | 
The mechanisms that control torpor and other hypothermic states—in which body temperatures drop below 37 degrees Celsius—are largely unknown. Two ...
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Frozen in time: You can be cryogenically preserved, but will you ever be revived?

David Warmflash | 
Preservation technologies promise the ability to suspend life for decades or even centuries. That would come with all sorts of ...
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Human hibernation: How it can change the world of medicine

David Warmflash | 
Many films and shows feature human hibernation as a means to help astronauts travel deep into space. While this could ...
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Sci-Fi suspended animation: Not the same as cryonics but might save your life

David Warmflash | 
Surgical research into hypothermia, long fodder for sci-fi movies, may yet reach the point of finding ways to preserve people ...
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