Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel

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Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel

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Scientists have discovered that the gray mouse lemur has the ability to hibernate

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By Hanane Hadj-Moussa, Carleton University; Aline Ingelson-Filpula, Carleton University, and Kenneth B. Storey, Carleton University Science fiction