Doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death.
via Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time | New Scientist
Interesting! This is, of course, one way to refine this technology to decrease bad side effects until it may be mature enough to even use it to go to Saturn…
Unless the side effects are worse than death, but it seems they’ve tested it on animals with good results…