The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is
offering money to researchers looking at identifying and
controlling timing mechanisms in cells, including those of the
human body. The blue sky gazing loon-collective notes that no
single "master switch" has been found to control genes'
activities. But it hopes that the … It would be better if they
worked out how to reawaken cryogenically frozen people :) We
already know that... It can't be done. When you freeze
something, the water expands. The human body is ~80% water.
Hence, I can say with reasonable certainty that people who have
already been frozen by cryo institutes will stay dead because
brain tissues will have ruptured. Others know different Dixie's
rebirthday (unfrozen german shepherd):
http://www.alcor.org/cryonics/cryonics8601.txt Effects of
antifreeze proteins on red blood cell survival during
cryopreservation:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/199/9/2071.full.pdf (These
links are from 1986 and 1996 respectively and could be cobwebs.
Dixie