Cryonics Magazine- 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
- Oxidative DNA Damage Repair
- Messenger RNA Self-destruct Mechanism Revealed
- How the Brain Cell Works: A Dive Into Its Inner Network
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- 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
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Tag Archives: Alcor
Fifth SENS Conference
August 31 to September 4, 2011 I attended fifth biannual SENS Conference (SENS5, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. People who attend SENS conferences are the demographic that is the most receptive to cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Rejuvenation
Tagged Aging Biomarkers, Alcor, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryonics Institute, GADD45, Gunther Kletetschka, Maria Konovalenko, Max More, Nuclear DNA, Rodolfo Goya, SENS
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Intermediate temperature storage in cryonics
The recent issue of Cryonics magazine features a comprehensive update on intermediate temperature storage (ITS). This article contains an important observation: Acoustic events consistent with fracturing were found to be universal during cooling through the cryogenic temperature range. They occurred … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Fracturing, Freezing, Glass Transition Temperature, Intermediate Temperature Storage, Thermal Stress, Vitrification
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ApoE4 – The Ancestral Allele
Reportedly, when James Watson and Steven Pinker had their genome sequenced, they declined to know their risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Clearly this is not an option for life extensionists and cryonicists, who are better off knowing whether they have a copy … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Neuroscience, Personal Genomics
Tagged 23andMe, Alcor, Alzheimer's Disease, ApoE4, Brain Aging, Cryonics, Life Extension, Paleo Diet, Patri Friedman
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Alcor update from CEO Max More
The Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence blog features a short interview with new Alcor CEO Max More: Q: Where do you see cryonics in the future? We’ll look back on this 50 to 100 years from now — we’ll shake our heads … Continue reading
How many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work?
On this page a calculation is attempted to determine how many neurons need to survive for cryonics to work. The flaw in this approach should be obvious when the author writes : According to The Stroke Association, a stroke is … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cell Death, Cerebral Ischemia, Cryonics, Delayed Neuronal Death, Nanomedicine, Stroke
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Official Alcor Facebook Page
Alcor Life Extension Foundation is on Facebook. If you would like to connect with Alcor members and supporters then visit the official Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alcor.life.extension.foundation Become a fan and encourage interested friends, family members, and colleagues to support Alcor too.
KrioRus cryopreserves 12th patient
On May 16, 2010 the only non-US cryonics provider KrioRus announced the cryopreservation of its 12th patient. The patient was pronounced legally dead on May 5 in Kiev and cryoprotectant perfusion was completed on May 7 after initial cooldown and … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, International Cryonics, KrioRus, Russia
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Teens & twenties cryonicist event 2010
This past weekend (Friday, January 8, 2010 to Sunday, January 10, 2010) I attended a meeting for cryonicists in their teens & twenties near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The event was funded by Bill Faloon and the Life Extension Foundation. Cairn … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bill Falloon, Cairn Idun, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Curtis Henderson, KrioRus, Steve Valentine, Suspended Animation, Timeship
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Death is Gruesome…Cryonics Only Makes it Less So!
William Faloon is a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer (Florida license number: F042784) Human beings are largely unaware about the gruesome nature of “death” Humans also shy away from the mutilation that occurs during hospital surgery. Hollywood films portray cryonics … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Alcor, Autopsy, Bill Faloon, Cremation, Cryonics, Death, Embalming, Larry Johnson, Life Extension Foundation, Ted Williams, William Faloon
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Interview with cryonics funding specialist Rudi Hoffman
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. Rudi Hoffman is an Alcor and CI member and the most prominent seller of cryonics life insurance policies. His website with information … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Atheism, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Evidence Based Cryonics, Larry Johnson, Libertarianism, Life Insurance, Religion, Rudi Hoffman, Sam Harris, The End of Faith
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The pursuit of cryonics as medicine
The biggest obstacle to the acceptance of cryonics is medical myopia; the idea that someone who has been pronounced dead by contemporary medical criteria will still be considered dead by future criteria. Advocates of human cryopreservation strongly argue against this. … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Bioethics, Critical Care Medicine, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Jerry Leaf, Medical Myopia, Medicine, Mike Darwin, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Vitrification
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The “yuck factor” and cryonics
In sensationalized accounts of cryonics, explicit descriptions of cryonics procedures, and that of neuropreservation in particular, are used to invoke a negative response in the reader. Some bioconservatives have argued that disgust experienced in response to certain ideas and practices … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Alcor, Bioconservatives, Cryonics, Leon Kass, Medical Myopia, Neuropreservation, Ted Williams, Wisdom of Repugance, Yuck Factor
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The future of Alcor
Alcor’s recent news item about its 2009 Annual Board Meeting and Strategic Meeting contains a number of encouraging statements. On the front of institutional reform, however, there is not much news to report. The passage about the need to balance … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cryobiology, CryoCare, Cryonics, Cryonics FAQ, Cryonics Institute, Medicine, Perfusion, Salaries
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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
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Cryonics Oregon, Oregon, Portland
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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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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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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
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Blood Washout, Cryonics, Evidence Based Cryonics, Medications, Organ Preservation, Suspended Animation
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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
The secular case against immortality
In 2003 George Hart published an article called “The Immortal’s Dilemma: Decontructing Eternal Life” , making a secular case against immortality. Hart mainly uses logical arguments and provides a fair amount of room to address a number of possible objections … Continue reading
Refractometry in cryonics
Contrary to popular opinion, in cryonics the blood of the patient is replaced with a cryoprotective agent to reduce freezing, or more recently, to eliminate ice formation altogether through vitrification. This procedure requires surgical access to the circulatory system of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cryonics Institute, Cryoprotectant, Long Life Magazine, Mike Darwin, Refractometer, Refractometry
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Time for the rebirth of cryonics in Britain
A PDF file of this article with images is available here. “Tenderly you stroke a Nettle, and it stings you for your pains. Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.” – Old English proverb … Continue reading
Alcor’s self perpetuating board: reviewing the arguments
In January 2008, Alcor’s self perpetuating Board came under renewed scrutiny after long-time Alcor member and cryonics activist David Pizer tried to raise interest for changing the current system to a member elected Board. Alcor’s most publicly visible response to … Continue reading
Alcor announces new job openings and funding for improved patient care
The following announcement from the Alcor Life Extension Foundation is indicative of its renewed focus on professionalizing the organization and improving the quality of readiness and patient care: On June 7th and 8th, 2008, the Alcor board and management held … Continue reading
Vitrification agents in cryonics
Today’s post on 21st Century Medicine’s vitrification agent M22 completes the series on vitrification agents in cryonics. To date, three different vitrification agents have been used for cryopreservation of humans: B2C (at Alcor from 2001-2005), VM-1 (at the Cryonics Institute … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Vitrification
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The first vitrification agent in cryonics: B2C
In 2001 the Alcor Life Extension Foundation licensed its first vitrification agent from the cryobiology research company 21st Century Medicine (21CM) to be used for its neuropatients. The composition of this agent, called B2C, has now been made public on … Continue reading
Arthur C. Clark and cryonics
Arthur C. Clark ( 1917-2008 ) was no stranger to cryonics. The famous science fiction author even assisted the cryonics organization Alcor during its legal battles. As he states in a letter in support of cryonics, “Although no one can … Continue reading
Stability and autolysis of cortical neurons in post-mortem adult rat brains
One scientific question that weighs heavily on the feasibility of contemporary cryonics is what happens to the brain after cardiac arrest. Common wisdom has it that the brain “dies” within 5-7 minutes after circulatory arrest. This is true in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience
Tagged Alcor, Apoptosis, Death, Decomposition, Ischemia, Necrosis
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