"We don't have the technology to do it now, but we hope to have it," he said, adding that the two elements required would be reversing the damage from freezing the body, then reversing the damage that caused death in the first place.
Moreover, the paper aims at evaluating the effectiveness of the actual temporary retrofitting (mainly steel chains) used to freeze the present damage.
Merkle believes that nanotechnology will solve this problem — microscopic robots will repair the cells, one by one — but, as Ettinger himself points out, anyone wanting to resurrect and rejuvenate the dead must complete four tasks: cure the person of what killed her, reverse the decay that set in between death and freezing, repair the damage done by the freezing itself, and make her young again.
It is suggested that the oxidizing environment is necessary to freeze the instantaneous surface damage and permits the post-mortem observation.
Wind can desiccate leaves; full winter sun heats the bark, which can split from large day-night temperature changes; and containers are often too small to prevent the soil from freezing and damaging the roots or killing the plant.
Firstly, freezing damage of the mutants and the corresponding wild-type (Ws) was determined by an electrolyte leakage assay using the same protocol as previously described [4], [71], except that whole rosettes from individual 21 d old seedlings were used instead of detached leaves and cold acclimation was for 2 d rather than 14 d.
Growers said it was an unseasonably long freeze, though the damage was less than expected.
Snakes can safely be frozen; the meat is not damaged and the coloration of the skin is not affected.
Freezing causes damage to the cell membrane due to ice crystal formation and also imparts stress condition by high osmolarity.
Although it is unlikely that air at subzero temperature will induce freezing damage to the mucosa, embedded blood vessels, and nerves of the nasal cavities, we used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to examine the nasal cavities for tissue damage in three pigs following ~7 h of cooling.
