Cryonics Basics
- What is cryonics?Cryonics is the practice of preserving a legally dead person at very low temperatures in the hope that future medicine can restore them.
- How cryopreservation worksAfter legal death, the body is cooled, blood is replaced with a protective solution, and the patient is brought to cryogenic temperature for long-term storage.
- Vitrification versus freezingModern cryonics aims to vitrify tissue into a glass-like state rather than freeze it, avoiding the ice crystals that damage cells.