Suspended animation is the slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved. States of suspended animation are common in micro-organisms and some plant tissue, such as seeds. Will suspended animation ever exist? It already does, if you count animals hibernating over winter.
But if you mean the sort of suspended animation depicted in science fiction (where a person is placed in a pod and frozen so they can survive interstellar journeys), that's a little more fanciful. But there are some very down-to-earth applications, assuming we can solve the problems with. Suspended animation In 1900, the British Medical Journal published an account of Russian peasants who, the author claimed, were able to hibernate.
Scientists are studying how animals hibernate and developing new technologies to help humans sleep through space travel. A cold bear awakens mid-hibernation, desperate to find something to ward off the cold with. I really am sorry that there are no audio effects present, I trie.
1. Understanding Suspended Animation Suspended animation, also known as torpor or hibernation in some animals, is a state where metabolic processes are significantly slowed or temporarily stopped. The purpose in nature is usually conservation.
Chemically induced suspended animation seems to be the method of choice to achieve a state of metabolic hibernation. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have repeated the hydrogen sulfide studies of Dr. Roth and have obtained the same results.
The findings pave the way to creating similar suspended animation states in humans, with important implications for medicine and long-haul space flights. Small mammals' body temperature plummets to near freezing temperatures during hibernation. Researchers have succeeded in activating a hibernation-like state in mice and rats, opening up the possibility that this type of "suspended animation" might eventually be used for preserving.
Chipmunk hibernating Hibernation is how many animals spend the winter. During the cold winter months it is quiet outdoors. Most of the summer birds have flown south to warmer climates.
Frogs, turtles and bears have disappeared. Both warm and cold-blooded animals retreat to burrows, dens and winter shelter. There are many animals which pass the cold months in a sort of suspended animation.
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