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
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- The Kurzwild Man in the Night
- Fucked.
- You Bet Your Life!
Tag Archives: Brain
Vitrification agents in cryonics: M22
M22 represents the culmination of decades of work in applied cryobiology by researchers Gregory Fahy , Brian Wowk, and others to develop a vitrification agent that can recover complex organs (such as the kidney) from cryogenic temperatures without ice formation … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged 21st Century Medicine, Brain, Brian Wowk, Cryonics, Cryopreservation, Gregory Fahy, Vitrification
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Cerebral blood flow during and after cardiac arrest
As discussed in a previous post, perfusion of the brain following long-term (>5 min) ischemia has been shown to be significantly compromised, particularly in subcortical regions. An interesting recent article by Ristagno, et. al in Resuscitation (May 2008) has added … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Blood Pressure, Brain, Cardiac Arrest, Chest Compressions, CPR, Cryonics, Ischemia, Resuscitation
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Albert Einstein’s brain and information-theoretic death
“People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.” Albert Einstein … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Albert Einstein, Brain, Chemical Fixation, Research
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Fever and brain injury
Elevation of body temperature occurring as a result of hypothalamic coordination of autonomic, neuroendocrine, and behavioral responses in reaction to physiological injury or invasion is generally known as fever. Traditional thought is that the “febrile response” is beneficial in preventing … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience
Tagged Brain, Hyperthermia, Hypothermia, Ischemia, Stroke, Temperature
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In situ chemical fixation of whale brains
As discussed by R. Michael Perry in his recent contribution to Cryonics Magazine, “Alternatives to Cryonics: A Very Preliminary Study,” (3rd Quarter 2007) chemical fixation of the brain may be a substitute for cryopreservation in circumstances where cryonics is not … Continue reading
Characterization of afterhyperpolarization (AHP) in cryopreserved brain slices
An ongoing quest in cryonics is the successful demonstration of memory sustainment after cryopreservation of the brain and rewarming from cryogenic temperatures. To that end, landmark experiments were performed by Pichugin, et al. (2006) on rat hippocampal brain slices which … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience
Tagged Brain, Brain Slice, Cryobiology, Hippocampus, Memory, Viability
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Whole body cryopreservation with preferential brain treatment
A strong argument in favor of neuropreservation is that all efforts can be devoted to vitrification of the brain. Perfusion times are shorter and challenges present during perfusion of the rest of the body (such as abdominal swelling and the … Continue reading