Suspended animation protects against lethal hypothermia, study shows (w/ Video)

Thursday, June 10, 2010 - 16:32 in Health & Medicine

How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no long-term negative health consequences? New findings from the laboratory of cell biologist Mark B. Roth, Ph.D., of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, may help explain the mechanics behind this widely documented phenomenon.

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