Field
Medicine
Horizon
ι Iota · 2035–2042
Lead center
Living Systems
Maturity
Research frontier — early-stage, high-uncertainty
Why it matters
It could buy time for trauma and surgery patients, preserve organs, and enable long-duration human spaceflight.
Where it stands
Emergency cooling that approaches suspended animation is being trialed for trauma; true long-term stasis remains research.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Living Systems center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at suspended animation: frontier models survey the literature and simulate the possibilities, rank the experiments most likely to resolve the open questions, and partner labs run the decisive ones — with results shared openly.