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Tag Archives: Cryonics Institute
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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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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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 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 2009 SENS Conference
Once a year I try to attend at least one biogerontology conference. Although I attend biogerontology conferences out of personal interest, and at my own expense, they are the most fruitful grounds for promoting cryonics I have found, and this … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Aubrey de Grey, Ben Best, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Cryoprotectant Toxicity, KrioRus, SENS
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“Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice” in Russian
Danila Medvedev has translated Ben Best’s article “Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice” into Russian. The translation is available on the KrioRus website. The original Engish article was published in Rejuvenation Research and is available as a PDF file at the … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Cryonics in Russia, Cryonics Institute, Danila Medvedev, KrioRus, Rejuvenation Research
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Ben Best on nuclear DNA damage and aging
The June 2009 issue of Rejuvenation Research features an article by Cryonics Insitute President Ben Best about the involvement of nuclear DNA damage in the aging process: Abstract This paper presents evidence that damage to nuclear DNA (nDNA) is a … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Science
Tagged Aging, Ben Best, Biogerontology, Cellular Senescence, Cryonics Institute, Nuclear DNA, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation Research
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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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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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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
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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Interview with Cryonics Institute president Ben Best
This is the first in a series of interviews with individuals in the life extension and cryonics movement. We start off with an interview with Ben Best, president of the Cryonics Institute. What is your philosophy toward life? I think … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Ben Best, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Life Extension
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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
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Alcor, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Cryonics Institute, Vitrification
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