Freezing Live Humans For Science

Courtesy of SINTEF

What we do in the name of medicine and science…

No this isn’t some evil lab experiment… well not too evil. A SINTEF lab is researching the effects of extremely low temperatures on humans physiology. 21 people have been put to a number of tests in temperatures ranging from +20 to -25 degrees Celsius. The results:

“The results so far show that cold has major effects on both fine and coarse motor capacity, which indicates that there is a real need for new clothing concepts,”  Øystein Wiggen

Of course this data won’t be used just for clothing, this data is valuable for many areas of medicine. [ScienceDaily]