DARPA researching method to put injured soldiers into suspended animation to buy more time for help to arrive

Soldiers that are wounded in the battlefield often face terrifying ordeals that can quickly lead to their untimely deaths. For this reason, the military is constantly looking for ways to improve the way they respond to calls for help whenever any members get injured in the line of duty. Now the actual U.S. agency that’s in charge of developing new tech that’s meant to be used in the military, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), says they may have found a new viable solution.

As a report about the agency’s most recent efforts state, they are looking for ways to “buy some extra time” for soldiers who are injured on the battlefield. Instead of trying to get medical care faster to the soldiers, DARPA wants to slow down time itself to increase the chances of a soldier’s survival.

They plan to do this through a new method they call Biostasis, which is designed to “slow life to save life,” according to an official statement. It works by slowing down the body’s various biochemical reactions until a person’s body ends up in a suspended state, so that time can simply pass by until medical attention finally arrives.