Startup Brings New Hope to the Pursuit of Reviving Frozen Bodies
The best part of waking up. You can’t just plop them into a bowl of warm water.
Until Labs, which was previously branded as Cradle Healthcare, is developing technology on reversible cryonics placing people with illnesses into a frozen state and then reviving them at some stage in the future. Currently they still need to vivisect you into thin slices…so I wouldn’t go signing up anytime soon.
As you can see in a very cool YouTube video below, the team describes the key breakthroughs and driving inspirations that have led to their recent advances.
For the geeky: They frame cryopreservation as an engineering/physics problem: If you cool quickly enough and use the right additives, water can form a glass instead of ice; with fast rewarming, you minimize time where crystals could form. They note embryo cryostorage in IVF as a precedent that complex biology can survive long-term vitrification and later function.
For the curious: It’s an engineering proof-of-concept for reversible cryopreservation at the tissue level, with explicit acknowledgment that peer-reviewed validation, memory/connectivity preservation, and organ/whole-brain demonstrations are still to come. So no chatting with heads in jars just yet.
