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Reanimated Lobsters?

Posted by timothy on from the cockroach-of-the-sea dept.

SYFer writes "Trufresh, a Connecticut-based frozen food company claims that lobsters frozen with its special freezing process sometimes come back to life when thawed. If these claims prove true, will the dubiously regarded field of "cryonics" finally get some respect?" If people were more like lobsters, maybe. The company's success rate at reviving lobsters after short-term freezing (at -40 degrees) is 12 out of 200.

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  1. Flash Freezing... by OneFix+Away · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's called flash freezing and it works...in theory...

    Problem is, ice crystals form in the soft tissue...in humans, ice crystals form inside of the brain tissue and cause brain damage. This is the problem with cryogenics...

    If we fix the ice crystal problem, we still can't fix the damaged tissue in those folks that have frozen their bodies/heads/etc before...

    This is why it's pretty dumb to pay to be frozen until we can reverse the process and revive a person...

  2. frogs, glucose, and cell lining by briglass · · Score: 3, Informative

    The main problem with human cryogenics is that the freezing process destroys the cell lining, but certain frogs have enough glucose in their cells to maintain the shape of the cell lining even when frozen. I'm not sure if this is the case with the lobsters.

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