http://www.metafilter.com/tags/markroth Posts tagged with 'markroth' at MetaFilter. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:48 -0800 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:48 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77114/Mark%2DRoth%2DThe%2DReAnimator <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2008/bringing-back-the-dead-1208">Raising the Dead.</a> When scientist Mark Roth's one-year-old daughter died after heart surgery, Roth obsessed clinically first about immortality, then about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation">suspended animation</a>, when all life processes temporarily cease. His <a href="http://labs.fhcrc.org/roth/"> subsequent research work</a> -- placing yeast, nematodes, drosophila, frogs, and zebrafish into suspended animation (clinical death) for up to 24 hours, then reviving them unharmed -- earned him a <a href="http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id=%7B901B69E7-3C10-41E9-AEE1-D7C6B61A2C1B%7D&notoc=1">MacArthur Fellowship</a> and a <a href="http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/weekly/2007_0813_br3_darpa.html">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency</a> (DARPA) Award. Roth's research "offers the possibility of important new clinical strategies for treating trauma, stroke, cancer, and a host of other conditions where temporary reduction in metabolism would provide much-needed time for physicians to address underlying problems." tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77114 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:45:48 -0800 darpa macarthur markroth suspendedanimation terranova