Chinese company conducts long-distance cryo-transfer

A biomedical research company has conducted what its touting as the country's first long-distance cryo-transfer.

Shandong Yinfeng Biological Group says it has been able to transfer the body of a 72-year old who died in hospital in the city of Tai'an in Shandong to the company's facilities in the provincial capital, Jinan.

The body of a cryogenic volunteer is transferred to Jinan, Shandong Province. [Photo: Chinanews.com]

To accomplish this, doctors treating the woman in the ICU at a hospital in Tai'an had to wait until the woman was officially declared dead.

Her body was then put through medical procedures to prepare her for long-term freezing.

The volunteer's body was then transferred in liquid nitrogen from Tai'an to Jinan at a temperature of minus-196 degrees Celcius.

Shandong Yinfeng Biological hopes to re-animate the woman after a cure for her lung cancer can one day be found.

Woman undergoing post-mortem cryo-freezing at a hospital in Tai'an, Shandong Province. [Photo: Chinanews.com]