Editing The Deconstitutor (section)

===PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS===
With the deconstitutor, it was hoped that older methods of the preservation of perishable food products would be rendered obsolete. However, by 1956 the FDA was still not satisfied with assurances from Kessler that food deconstitution presented no long term health risks, and approval was held back pending ongoing tests.  <br>  <br> In the medical industry, the deconstitutor (or decon unit) may have been embraced by less conservative members of the establishment, to some success. Blood, donor organs, and even entire human bodies could potentially be kept in relatively small capsules and stored indefinitely. Risk of cellular deterioration and side effects proved, in practice, to be negligible enough to merit ongoing use of Kessler’s decon unit in situations where alternate methods proved costly or ineffectual.  In addition, terminally ill patients, coma victims, and the elderly who were willing to risk this relatively new and experimental process have done so to prolong their life indefinitely, in all the applications previously anticipated using typical cryonics practices. Where cryonics fails due to cellular breakdown, the deconstitutor could succeed. <br>  <br> There is an additional, less known feature of the deconstitutor. Though insufficiently tested and still very controversial, the deconstitutor can also be used to restore lost or damaged tissue in a subject. Each time the deconstitutor is used on a subject, it stores a genetic profile of the subject in its computer memory. If a subject previously reconstituted enters the deconstitutor and his profile has changed, the computer can, to an extent, assemble the essential elements to reconstitute a second time so that the current profile fits the previous profile. For example, if the subject has lost a limb since he was reconstituted, the decon unit's computer can use the genetic profile on board to re-map the subject's biological construction. When the subject is next reconstituted, he will find that his body is whole again. This example assumes that the severed limb was brought into the decon unit with the subject. If there is not sufficient body mass available to recreate a previous profile, the computer will either not be able to perform the reconstitution, or it will scale the subject down to account for the missing mass. Suddenly, the subject may find himself a lot smaller. The disadvantages and risks of this procedure are numerous, including loss of memory. The computer recreates the existing profile of the subject's brain as it appeared at the exact moment it was previously deconstituted, be that a day or several years ago.