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[Freshmaker]

To be fair the rabbit lived for 48 days and was euthanized to harvest the organ and not because of its health; the paper notes its health was stable at that point albeit underweight with unspecified urinary output issues. If we trust the results the kidney basically seemed to work as intended though with issues immediately following reimplantation.

They did mention that half the kidney was wrecked by the process when they dissected it.

And I can argue that you are being far too optimistic here. It's a good proof of concept paper for potential advances in kidney transplantation, but to sell it as a proof of concept for cryonics is ridiculous.There's a reason it's published in a fairly low-impact journal and not cited very frequently; this is not some groundbreaking "brilliant" trial. It's an isolated proof of concept that shows something is possible, and only if you're willing to be tolerant of multiple trails and a frankly imperfectly preserved kidney. It suggests with enough research one day we may be able to find a cooling solution that can preserve ENOUGH of the human kidney to transplant it to another living donor. You can not casually compare a kidney to a brain in terms of complexity and feasibility for preservation. They are very different organs, with very different needs and one is far, far less tolerant of injury.

Pretty much what I was trying to get at.

 

[infinitys_7th]

No.

Instead of giving your money to frauds just learn to come to grips with your own mortality.

Why do something that may be unnecessary?