Saturday, April 23, 2005
Iced Mice
Iced Mice intriguing, doctors say.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It sounds like science fiction, yet an experiment in which mice were forced into hibernation and then revived with no apparent ill effects might ultimately lead to new ways to treat the critically ill.
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...Fresh air revived the mice, and testing uncovered no differences in behavior or functional ability between the treated mice and untreated ones, the study concluded.
Can you imagine how the poor mice felt? "Where am I? What was I doing?". Interesting article, though.
WASHINGTON (AP) - It sounds like science fiction, yet an experiment in which mice were forced into hibernation and then revived with no apparent ill effects might ultimately lead to new ways to treat the critically ill.
*snip*
...Fresh air revived the mice, and testing uncovered no differences in behavior or functional ability between the treated mice and untreated ones, the study concluded.
Can you imagine how the poor mice felt? "Where am I? What was I doing?". Interesting article, though.
