Promoting a Cryonics and Cryopreservation Cooperative in Catalonia
Cryopreservation is the preservation at low temperatures (below -120 ° C ) of living beings or organs in order to preserve them. Low temperatures reduce metabolism and promote conservation. There is scientific evidence suggesting that at temperatures below -120 ° C beings or organs can be preserved unchanged for many hundreds of years.
The reversible cryopreservation of embryos, oocytes and human sperm is a technique that works properly and is regularly used. The reversible cryopreservation of small animals and rabbit kidneys, has also been successfully achieved, maintaining adequate functioning.
Ongoing progress has enabled significant improvements. One of the dangers both in the process of cooling into these temperatures, as well as rising back into normal temperature (when it aimed to reverse the process) is the formation of ice crystals that can damage cells. To counteract these dangers it is possible to prevent the formation of crystals, using cryoprotective agents, in the process known as vitrification.
Reversible vitrification has not yet been successfully achieved in adult mammals,
although the preservation of all cellular structures has been observed with an
electronic microscope
The cryopreservation, cryonics or cryonics suspension of human beings, involves very low temperatures (below -120 ° C) during the number of years necessary in order to preserve their bodies and later reverse the situation and bring them back to life, thanks to future scientific improvements.
This website aims to be a meeting point for people interested in promoting a cryonics and cryopreservation cooperative in Catalonia or in Spain.