Scientists Test Less Chilling Suspended Animation

From Wired Top Stories:

Scientists have sent mice into, and pulled them out of, a state of suspended animation using hydrogen sulfide. So you'd like to spend a few hundred years in dreamland and awake in a transformed world. Who wouldn't? Unfortunately, the means of doing so are a little inconvenient. You -- or at least your head -- could be shot full of antifreeze and suspended in liquid nitrogen. If that seems a little radical, you could try being drained of blood and then frozen: you might not make it more than a few hours into the future, but to a zombie that'll be plenty. The current options, then, are few. But maybe that's changing: in a study published yesterday in Anesthesiology, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital used hydrogen sulfide -- the gas that makes rotten eggs smell so bad -- to completely suspend the metabolism of mice, who were revived several minutes later without any apparent side effects.

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