Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity’s plans to return to the moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next, we need to figure out how to keep astronauts healthy for these years-long missions. One solution long championed by science fiction is suspended animation, or putting humans in a hibernation-like sleep for the duration of…
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Brain switch lets us control a kind of suspended animation in mice
Stimulating or inhibiting specific neurons in mice can put them in a hibernation-like state called torpor. The same trick works in rats that don’t experience torpor naturally, suggesting it may also be possible in people Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2245639-brain-switch-lets-us-control-a-kind-of-suspended-animation-in-mice/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Suspended animation for emergency medicine: your questions answered
Yesterday, New Scientist broke the news that suspended animation has been tried on humans for the first time. Helen Thomson answers all your questions on this new procedure Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224422-suspended-animation-for-emergency-medicine-your-questions-answered/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Humans Placed in Suspended Animation For the First Time
Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. From a report: Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told New Scientist that his team of medics had placed at least one patient…
Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
At least one person has been placed in a form of suspended animation during a trial that aims to help people survive traumatic injuries like a gunshot or stab wound Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2224004-exclusive-humans-placed-in-suspended-animation-for-the-first-time/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…