Is Human Hibernation a Possible Tool for Future Long-Term Crewed Space Flight?

Dr. Wallace’s talk with discuss the fantasy of human hibernation, what are the different types of hibernation, what are the proposed mechanisms of hibernation, and why humans are biologically and physiologically unlikely to tolerate hibernation. This discussion will review how anesthesia is fundamentally different from hibernation with separate risks and complications that fundamentally limit it as a model of hibernation. The risks of anesthesia will be discussed as well as the approaches we use to mitigate those risks. Speculation on the implications of the differences between living and dead organisms and tissue will provide a foundation for a discussion of what may be fundamental to living organisms.

Speaker: Art Wallace, UC San Francisco

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