Top UK scientist calls for restrictions on marketing cryonics

Court decision to let dying teenager have body frozen could have unintended effect of giving people false hope, says professor

Cryonic freezing companies should be banned from marketing the technique to vulnerable people, according to a leading neuroscientist who said they were being sold a false hope that freezing their bodies would allow them to be brought back to life in the future.

Clive Coen, a professor of neuroscience at King's College London, said the high court decision which allowed a dying 14-year-old girl to have her body cryogenically frozen could have the "unintended consequence " that a lot of people are going to think this is worth a punt".