[csdigi]

Mark Roth did an interesting TED talk 4 years ago on that very subject.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVAaZVz9pDs

[ekianjo]

Yeah, and still no progress in 4 years in clinical practice. That's... depressing :(

[ed]

    Experiments on sedated sheep and partially ventilated
    anesthetized pigs have been unsuccessful, suggesting
    that application to large mammals may not be feasible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation#Chemically-...

[danieltillett]

Yes the (d)ethicists have so jammed up the drug development process with impossible safety thresholds that basically nothing new can now be tested in humans.