The consensus is, as far as I can tell, that microscopic cracks from the freeze-thaw process do fairly comprehensive destruction in spite of the measures taken.
Obviously freeze-thawing a kidney is much easier than doing the same with a brain, but a rabbit kidney has gone through this full cycle and the rabbit it was implanted in lived, so it's not obvious that these cracks are a show-stopper. Would these cracks result in information-theoretic death?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2010-01-21 10:38 am (UTC)Obviously freeze-thawing a kidney is much easier than doing the same with a brain, but a rabbit kidney has gone through this full cycle and the rabbit it was implanted in lived, so it's not obvious that these cracks are a show-stopper. Would these cracks result in information-theoretic death?