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Hibernation on Demand
Mr. Christmas Lights writes "Dr. Mark Roth at the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
has successfully
induced
a state of reversible metabolic hibernation in mice
which (no surprise) is
getting quite a bit of publicity.
Attempts in the past have used cooling techniques, but Dr. Roth
uses hydrogen sulfide (80 parts/million) to basically put the warm-blooded mice
into an advanced hibernated state, with a drop from the normal
120 breaths/minute to less than 10. Core body temperature also drops
as low as 11C (50F) to match the ambient room temperature. The mice recover in about two hours once normal air/temperatures are applied,
with no apparent ill effects - apparently there is a mice IQ/motor-skills test.
In addition to the obligatory reference to
Woody Allen's
Sleeper movie, this has applicability for emergency rooms as it
would be beneficial to in ER medicine as a way of "buying time"
while diagnosis is performed."
If only we could put those dupes on ice...
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
...are apparently with Slashdot editors.
... you spend the rest of your life smelling like rotten eggs because of the sulfide...
This hibernation thing really works. Seems like only yesterday that I went to bed after reading about this.
In further news, READ YOUR OWN FUCKING SITE once a day you stupid fuck.
Microsoft initiates legal action against the researchers for numerous violations of patents covering the Windows Hiberation feature.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
I was on hibernation long enough to get some fresh stories...
each day at work ... I normally recover in time to go home without any ill effects and do not require the smell of rotting eggs.
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Just wait until Zonk dupes CmdrTaco's "Update For for the dupe. Not going well. Appreciate all the hate mail. Really encourages improvement.".
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Since this is a dupe (and a very recent one at that) and all we're going to hear is whinging about it being a dupe I figure why not make use of the space. I submit that we change the subject to something worthwhile discussing: Category: ASK SLASHDOT Subject: DUPE ARTICLES "With all of the fancy software and technology at their disposal, how is it possible for Slashdot to not have a "technological" system in place to ensure that dupe articles are not submitted to the front page? Are their systems too complicated to enable the development and use of a simple dupe article checker that would automatically search and warn of similar, perhaps identical, articles that have recently been posted? Is it that the cost of such software is prohibitive, or that they believe submission of dupe articles are considered "funny" to readers and therefore help the bottom line? Or is it pure laziness? Discuss.
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I think it's time that there was an open discussion of dupes (This article is a dupe of one poasted last night).
There have been pro and against arguments. The pro argument have been that some people miss the original articles and have a second chance to post. The neutral argument has been that if one doesn't like the dupe, one should simpy ignore it. Both of these arguments make good sense.
However, slashdot is in some sense a commercial enterprise. The majority are, of course, not subscribers, but there must be quite a few all the same. Slashdot also gets paid by advertisers to get many hits. Advertisers could argue that they get less hits on dupe articles.
In these last two cases, it isn't exactly a shiny example of quality in a product (if one can look upin slashdot as a product) to see so many dupes. I know that the sheer number of dupes in slashdot would prevent me from subscribing as I see it as a problem of editors being disinterested in checking what they post.
Why aren't hibernating mammals eaten alive by microorganisms? (yes there was a discussion before) Well, apparantly their immune system is actually disabled. However, they wake up periodically, specifically to fight off any infections.
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Humans can't do this if their cytochrome C is inhibited by hydrogen sulfide, so if you ever do this with humans, you'd have to make sure they wake up periodically to prevent all kinds of nastyness.
Bats seem to have a different strategy. They stay in deep hibernation for prolonged periods up to 90 days, but their biochemistry changes quite drastically in order to do this. It's unlikely that human cells are able to change themselves so drastically.
http://physrev.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/83
I really wonder what would happen to a mouse if you induce hibernation for more than a month.
Buying hours and preventing damage would be a good purpose for artificial human hibernation, but I think space travel is a little far fetched.