Dr. Tamargo pondered using suspended animation but delayed surgery ... His temperature was lowered gradually, his heart and brain functions stopped for a little less than an hour, and his ...

Scientists have zapped mice and rats into a suspended-animation-like state called torpor ... life-threatening conditions such as stroke and heart attacks," lead study author Hong Chen, a professor ...

Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years ... their blood with ice-cold saline -- the heart stops beating and brain activity almost completely stops.

Not as animated creatures ... like two battling characters in the brain. (They’re not.) Medical researchers investigate the relationship between heart attacks and anger, as if anger has one ...

Just before heart and brain surgery, doctors sometimes lower ... Finding ways to cool the body until it reaches a state of suspended animation – where people are not alive but not yet dead ...

Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for ... When our heart stops beating, blood no longer carries oxygen to cells. Without oxygen, our brain can only survive for about 5 minutes ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

Sewer gas can induce 'suspended animation' in mice, say US scientists ... But in mice, it was found to slow down heart rate and breathing and decrease body temperature, while keeping a normal blood ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...