{"id":100086,"date":"2019-12-24T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/researchers-have-placed-humans-in-suspended-animation"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:15:48","slug":"researchers-have-placed-humans-in-suspended-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/researchers-have-placed-humans-in-suspended-animation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have placed humans in suspended animation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TW_112HDxW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Promising news- very primitive proof of concept for cryonics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years. The idea that the functions of the human body can somehow be put on \u201cpause\u201d while life-saving medical procedures are performed (or a person is sent into space, a la Alien) has long seemed untenable \u2014 until now. According to New Scientist, doctors have successfully placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, in a trial that could have an enormous influence on the future of emergency room surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story on Engadget: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/11\/20\/human-patient-put-in-suspended-animation-for-the-first-time\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019\/11\/20\/human-patient-put-in-sus\u2026irst-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get More Engadget:<br \/> \u2022 Like us on Facebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/engadget\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/engadget<\/a><br \/> \u2022 Follow us on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/engadget\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/engadget<\/a><br \/> \u2022 Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/engadget\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/engadget<\/a><br \/> \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promising news- very primitive proof of concept for cryonics. Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years. The idea that the functions of the human body can somehow be put on \u201cpause\u201d while life-saving medical procedures are performed (or a person is sent into space, a la Alien) has long seemed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2017,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryonics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100792,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100086\/revisions\/100792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}