Cryonics Magazine- Fasting Weakens Cancer in Mice
- Scientists Eavesdrop Inside the Mind
- Discovery May Provide Insight into Brain Cell Aging
- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
- New Discoveries in Cell Aging
- Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
- How Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
- Victory For Crowdsourced Biomolecule Design
- New Approach to Preventing Fatal Septic Shock
- Alzheimer’s Damage Occurs Early
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation – Part 1
- Cryonics “Castle”
- Doing the Time Warp
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.
- Fortune and Men’s Eyes
- Interventive Gerontology 101.01: The Basics
- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
Category Archives: Cryonics
Two cryonics meetings in Oregon
There will be two cryonics meetings in Oregon this weekend. Eugene area cryonics meet-up: Saturday August 15th 5:00pm Cozmic Pizza (coffee, salads, wine, beer and any kind of pizza you’d like from gluten free to regular or vegan) 199 W … Continue reading
Cryonics and philosophy of science
The 2008-3 issue of Alcor’s Cryonics Magazine contains a number of articles about the pitfalls of (excessive) scientific optimism and its potential adverse effects on the organizational and practical aspects of cryonics. My own contribution contrasts cryonics as medical conservatism … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Cryonics, Death, Epistemology, Information-theoretic Death, Meliorism, Philosophy of Science, Singularity, Transhumanism
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CPR: A pair of hands aren’t enough
CPR: A Pair of Hands Aren’t Enough: You Also Need a Heart and a Brain “Anyone, anywhere, can now initiate cardiac resuscitation procedures. All that is needed are two hands.” [Kouwenhoven WB, Jude J, Knickerbocker G. Closed chest cardiac massage. … Continue reading
The emergence of local cryonics
Real estate is all about location, location, location. Location matters in cryonics as well. The objective of standby and stabilization in cryonics is to limit injury to the brain after pronouncement of legal death. Unfortunately, many cryonics patients have not … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Cryonics Oregon, Oregon, Portland
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CPR and the breath of death?
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7 For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Health, Science
Tagged Active Compression Decompression CPR, Autopulse, CPR, Cryonics, LUCAS, LUCAS 2, Mechanical CPR, Michigan Thumper, Mike Darwin, Negative Pressure Ventilation
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CPR: new standards; new needs
In 2005 the American heart association revised its standards for CPR increasing the number of compressions from 80 cpm to 100 cpm, eliminating pauses for ventilation, and urging that focus be shifted to compressions (perfusion) rather than ventilation. This latter … Continue reading
Cryonics Training Austin, Texas, July 25 and 26
Alcor is having a Texas (TX) Readiness Team Training this July 25th and 26th. This training is free and open to Cryonics Institute members as well. July 25th 2009, 10:00am to 5:00pm, lunch provided at 1:00pm July 26th 2009, 10:00am … Continue reading
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ACD-CPR & the rise of the machine?
If conventional cardiopulmonary support (CPS) in cryonics is difficult to perform adequately, and impossible to sustain for more than brief periods (30-60 min) before exhausting even a 3-man standby team, this is even more the case for active compression-decompression CPS … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Compression Decompression CPR, Autopulse, CPR, CPS, Cryonics, Impedance Threshold Device, Impedance Valve, LUCAS 2, Mike Darwin, ResQPOD, ResQPump, Suspended Animation
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Two useful new respiratory products
Sometime in the 1780s the French scientist Jacques Charles’s noted that at constant pressure, the volume of a given mass of an ideal gas increases or decreases by the same factor as its temperature on the absolute temperature scale. Or, put … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Charles' Law, Cryonics, End Tidal CO2, Endotracheal Tube, ETCO2, Jacques Charles, PressureEasy Cuff Pressure Monitor, Ultraprofound Hypothermia
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Buried alive?
According to this news item the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is taking legal action against the brother and sister of an Alcor member who “denied the foundation’s request for his body and didn’t notify them of their brother’s death until … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Health
Tagged Alcor, CryoCare, Cryonics, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, Hostile Relatives, Living Will
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Whatever happened to the future of medicine
Source: ExtroBritannia Why the much anticipated medical breakthroughs of the early 21st century are failing to materialize Saturday 30th May 2009, 2pm-4pm. Room 403 (fourth floor), Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX. There’s no charge to attend, and everyone … Continue reading
Interview with Alcor member David Croft
David Wallace Croft is an Alcor member in the Dallas area where he lives with his wife Shannon and five children, Ada, Ben, Tom, Abe, and Ted. He is employed as a Java software developer and is a part-time doctoral … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Alcor, Cryonics, David Croft, Interview, Universal Immortalism
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40,000 year old frozen baby mammoth unearthed
In “Ice Baby” by Tom Mueller, the May 2009 issue of National Geographic announces the recent discovery of a 40,000 year old baby mammoth in Sibera. She is called Lyuba, named after the wife of the Nenet reindeer herder who … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Baby Mammoth, Cloning, Cryonics, DNA, Mammoth, National Geographic, Siberia
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No-reflow as a post-mortem artifact
It is common medical knowledge that after 5 minutes of cardiac arrest the prospects of successful resuscitation without neurological impairment become progressively bleak. But there is less consensus on the mechanisms of such injury. One strong candidate is what is … Continue reading
Placing “In Case of Emergency” numbers in your cell phone
At the hospital where Linda works, nurses and other employees swap many ‘helpful hints’ via email, and one of these ideas recently circulated seemed to be a technique cryonicists could use to increase the chances that their suspension organizations would … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryonics, Emergency Medicine, Fred and Linda Chamberlain, ICE
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Response to Aschwin de Wolf’s ‘Evidence Based Cryonics’
In his article entitled ‘Evidence Based Cryonics’ Aschwin de Wolf unassailably argues that: “There is an urgent need to move from extrapolation based cryonics to evidence based cryonics. This will require a comprehensive research program aimed at creating realistic cryonics … Continue reading
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Tagged Aschwin de Wolf, Cryonics, Evidence Based Cryonics, Evidence Based Medicine, Hypothermia, Medications, Mike Darwin, Neuroprotection
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Basile J. Luyet on the instability of solidified solutions
Basile J. Luyet (1897-1974) can be considered the father of modern cryobiology. His book “Life and Death at Low Temperatures” is a classic in the field and his journal “Biodynamica” evolved into a publication solely dedicated to the study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Basile J. Luyet, Ben Best, Cryobiology, Cryonics, De-vitrification, Greg Fahy, Intermediate Temperature Storage, Low Temperature Biology, Vitrification
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Evidence based cryonics
Cryonics patients can greatly benefit from rapid stabilization after pronouncement of legal death. One fortunate feature of stabilization procedures is that the most effective and validated procedures are relatively inexpensive and easy to perform. The difference between no stabilization procedures … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Blood Washout, Cryonics, Evidence Based Cryonics, Medications, Organ Preservation, Suspended Animation
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Microvasculature perfusion failure in cryonics
Under ideal circumstances cryonics patients are stabilized immediately after pronouncement of legal death by restoring blood flow to the brain, lowering temperature, and administering medications. In most cryonics cases, however, there is a delay between pronouncement of legal death and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cerebral Blood Flow, Cerebral Ischemia, Cryonics, Erythrocytes, No-Reflow, Sodium Borohydride
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Alcor’s problematic “notable quotes” page
I realized recently that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. The irony strikes me, for the Apollo missions did not lead to any follow-up in manned space travel. Nobody anticipated that we’d … Continue reading
Cryonics and transhumanism
The association of cryonics with “transhumanism” seems inevitable but is problematic. It seems inevitable because cryonics should be most attractive to people with a very positive perspective on the future capabilities of technology. Barring rapid advances in mitigating aging, cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science, Society
Tagged Anne Corwin, Cryonics, Mark Plus, Nanotechnology, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, Transhumanism
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DNA preservation and cryonics
Following the news that mice have been cloned from 16 year old frozen tissue comes an announcement that scientists have made advances in resurrecting the extinct Pyrenean Ibex. This does not only offer hope that someday other extinct species may … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Cloning, Cryonics Institute, DNA, Mind Uploading, Pyrenean Ibex
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Jehovah’s witnesses and cryonics
When I was in New Zealand in 1999, CI Member Cam Christie told me that one of his co-workers was against cryonics because she was a Jehovah’s Witness and her church had a position against cryonics. I recently found an … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Immortality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Religion
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Marcelon Johnson dies and is not cryopreserved
For Immediate Release, Friday, 24 January, 2009 Date: 23 January, 2009 Introduction I have been informed that Marcelon (Marce) Johnson died on 01/21/2009, was cremated, and not cryopreserved. I understand this information may come as a surprise and as a … Continue reading
5 dangerous ideas about cryonics
The cryonics organizations Alcor and the Cryonics Institute have taken great care to correct some of the persistent myths about cryonics. With so much widespread misinformation being circulated in the media it seems trivial to pay attention to some of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Brian Wowk, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Human Cryopreservation, Thomas Donaldson
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Patrick Millard’s cryonics photography
Patrick Millard is a Michigan based artist who works with different media including photography, painting, mixed media, sound, and installation. He currently works as an adjunct professor of photography at Grand Valley State University and Grand Rapids Community College and … Continue reading
Robert White on brain death
Robert J. White is most known, or perhaps most notorious, for his work on primate head transplants. Less known, but more relevant to the practice of human cryopreservation, is his work in cerebral ischemia, hypothermia, and brain preservation. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death, Neuroscience
Tagged Brain Death, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Robert J. White
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Greg Jordan on Buddhism, Epicureanism, and Immortalism
“Buddhism and Epicureanism combat the fear of death by accommodating the emotions to the reasonable certainty of death. Contemporary immortalism (which includes projects such as life extension, cryonic suspension, and universal immortalism) argues that scientific and technological solutions to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Cryonics, Death; Fear of Death, Epicureanism, Immortalism, Life Extension, Universal Immortalism
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Cryonics sets example for emergency medicine
One of the most neglected aspects of cryonics is that its procedures, and the research to support them, can have important practical applications in mainstream fields such as organ preservation and emergency medicine. Contrary to popular opinion, cryonics does not … Continue reading
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Tagged Cardiac Arrest, CPR, Cryonics, Emergency Medicine, EMS, Hypothermia, Mike Darwin, ResQPOD, Resuscitation, Vitrification
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Cloning of frozen mice and cryonics
Japanese scientists have managed to clone a mouse that had been frozen without any cryoprotection for 16 years at minus 20 degrees Celsius. The researchers used the researchers used brain cell nuclei, and planted it into an egg of another … Continue reading
Interview with Alcor readiness coordinator Regina Pancake
This is the second in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. The first interview was with Cryonics Institute president Ben Best. This interview is with Regina Pancake, Alcor’s Readiness Coordinator. How did you … Continue reading
My road to a possible future
My experiences with death began in 1974, when I was age 10. On Labor Day Sunday, while watching the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon, my father told me to turn the TV off. When I asked why, he said my grandfather, … Continue reading
Promoting cerebral blood flow in cryonics patients
It has been shown that perfusability of the brain is significantly compromised after long-term (>5 min) ischemic events (the “no reflow” phenomenon). Improving cerebral blood flow after circulatory arrest is one of the fundamental objectives of human cryopreservation stabilization protocol. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience
Tagged Blood Clotting, Cerebral Blood Flow, Cerebral Ischemia, Cryonics, Dextran-40, Medications, Neuroscience, Streptokinase
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