Suspended animation in roundworm (nematode) embryo - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

A time-lapse video of anoxia-induced suspended animation in a nematode (roundworm) embryo -- a 10-hour experiment shot at 175x real time. Study reveals how suspended animation protects against lethal hypothermia. and may have implications for extending preservation of human organs for transplantation The video and study is courtesy of the laboratory of Dr. Mark Roth. Learn more at
http://www.fhcrc.org/about/ne/news/2010/06/10/suspended.html

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• Suspended animation
• Hutchinson Center
• hypothermia

[TheMidnightSiege]

How does the experiment prove to aid against hypothermia? Is this anoxia environment also in a sub-zero environment? Also, it isn't suspended animation at the cellular level, placing the cells all into the G1 phase. Or is that suspended animation? I'm not sure I'm understanding the overall purpose of your experiment. Are you looking to prove that cells can exist in an oxygen deprived environment and then begin dividing again? The same thing happens during a serum starve. Good luck!

[HutchinsonCenter1]

@TheMidnightSiege Check out the news release about this video on the home page of the Hutchinson Center's website (fhcrc.org). Also, the July 1 print edition of "Moleculare biology of the Cell" has the complete article.

[eawalpurgis]

OMG!! I THOUGHT SUSPENDED ANIMATION WAS SCI-FI!!

[SveDov]

@JeremyKilroy You know what I mean, my dear homo sapiens.

[JeremyKilroy]

@SveDov you are an animal you are a species of an animal mammel, homo sapien.

[irvykinneas]

IS THIS FROZEN LIFE?

[kj369kj]

lols so to stop disease all we need to do is remove oxygen from our bodies, but nice project anyways

[SveDov]

amazing and scary...

the pentagon is behind this. can leave the science and its natural development without military?

money or bullets.. no more choices.

while more i know about the human being, i would like to be a animal...

[zepass]

in such cases like this we can say only one thing; HOLY FUCK!

[frickfrock999]

Time to run.