“You’re not dead til you’re warm and dead.”

Duluth got a mention in this 2010 Ted Talk by cell biologist Mark Roth: Suspended Animation is in our Grasp.

More specifically he mentions the miraculous case of Janice Goodger

There was a 65-year-old woman in Duluth, Minnesota last year that was found frozen and without a pulse in her front yard one morning in the winter, and they brought her back to life. The next day, she was doing so well, they wanted to run tests on her. She got cranky and just went home.

8 Comments

chadp

about 13 years ago

Better than only being known for the fecal transplant thing.

No butts about it — fecal transplants work for some

drifter

about 13 years ago

In a related note, UMD's Biology Department is home to a preeminent researcher in the field of mammalian hibernation.

Lojasmo

about 13 years ago

While the medical maxim is true, frozen cellular tissue crystalizes, and bursts when thawed.  Bad for brains.

Isiah Heap

about 13 years ago

While ice fishing as a kid, I noticed fish who were frozen solid after caught and sitting on the surface of the ice, could also thaw out and come back to life.

emmadogs

about 13 years ago

This is, of course, how zombies (and zombie fish) came to be.

Lojasmo

about 13 years ago

Frozen fish can not come back to life.

Jadiaz

about 13 years ago

Some interesting reading.... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation

emmadogs

about 13 years ago

Lojasmo, that's what they said, all right.  Before the fish became reanimated zombies, that is.

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