Cryonics Magazine- 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
- Oxidative DNA Damage Repair
- 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: Mike Darwin
The case against cryonics
What is striking about cryonics is that those who have taken serious efforts to understand the arguments in favor of its technical feasibility generally endorse the idea. Those who have not made cryonics arrangements usually give non-technical arguments (anxiety about … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience
Tagged Cryonics, Cryonics Criticism, Cryopreservation, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Decision Theory, Memory, Mike Darwin, Personal Identity, Personal Survival, Vitrification
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The RhinoChill: A New Way to Cool the Brain Quickly
We scientists are difficult, cranky, and above all, maddeningly frustrating people. Want to turn lead into gold? No problem, we can tell you how to do that, and in fact have even done it already: the only catch is that … Continue reading
Posted in Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Cooling, Cryonics, Hypothermia, Ischemia, Mike Darwin, Neuroprotection, RhinoChill
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At last, a sure-cold way to sell cryonics with guaranteed success!
A humorous romp through a promising new technique in aesthetic medicine from one cryonicist’s (warped) point of view. Figure 1: Before cryopreservation (L) and after cryopreservation (R). As everyone involved in cryonics for more than a fortnight is sadly aware, … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Health, Science
Tagged Adipocytes, Chilling Injury, Cosmetic Surgery, Cryobiology, Cryolipolysis, Cryonics, Hypothermia, Mike Darwin, Organ Preservation, Zeltiq
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Cryonics, trans-temporal communism and future squatters
Cryonics advocate Eugen Leitl puts forward some hard-hitting and thought-provoking observations about cryonics (reminiscent of Mike Darwin’s more recent thoughts on the subject): Cryonics, like Natural Selection, or the theories of General and Special Relativity, is core-smashing in character, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Cryonics, Eugen Leitl, Futurism, Medicine, Mike Darwin, Transhumanism
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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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Revival of cryonics patients literature
There is a growing literature that discusses the technical aspects of revival of cryonics patients. The following list of the published literature was compiled by Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas and published as an appendix of their article on molecular … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Neuroscience, Science
Tagged Cryonics, Cryonics Magazine, Mike Darwin, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Ralph Merkle, Robert Freitas, Thomas Donaldson
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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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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
Posted in Cryonics
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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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
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
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Aschwin de Wolf, Cryonics, Evidence Based Cryonics, Evidence Based Medicine, Hypothermia, Medications, Mike Darwin, Neuroprotection
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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
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
Posted in Cryonics, Health
Tagged Cardiac Arrest, CPR, Cryonics, Emergency Medicine, EMS, Hypothermia, Mike Darwin, ResQPOD, Resuscitation, Vitrification
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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
D(+)-Lactose and other sugars in organ preservation and cryonics
A PDF file of this document is available with images and structural visualization of various sugars. D(+) lactose monohydrate is the principal sugar in mammalian milks. The monohydrate part is easiest to explain; it simply means that the lactose molecule … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Chemistry, Cryonics, Hypothermia, Mike Darwin, Organ Preservation, Organic Chemistry, Sugars
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Mike Darwin on obstacles to progress in cryonics
The blog dw2-0 reports on Mike Darwin’s recent ExtroBritannia talk in London: “Mike Darwin made the same connection at an utterly engrossing UKTA meeting this weekend…. He spoke for over two hours, and continued in a formal Q&A session for … Continue reading
Cryonics: why it has failed, and possible ways to fix it
From: ExtroBritannia Cryonics: Why it has failed, and possible ways to fix it – with Mike Darwin The next ExtroBritannia event is scheduled for Saturday August 2, 2008; 2:00pm – 4:00pm. Location to be announced asap. Lead Speaker: Mike Darwin, … Continue reading
Liquid ventilation in cryonics
After legal pronouncement of death, cryonics patients benefit from rapid stabilization to protect the brain from injury. The most fundamental intervention is induction of hypothermia. Unlike other interventions such as cardiopulmonary support (CPS) and administration of neuroprotective medications, induction of … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Cooling, Cryonics, Hypothermia, Liquid Breathing, Liquid Ventilation, Mike Darwin
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Remote blood washout in cryonics
One argument that is often raised in favor of “field vitrification” (or vehicle based vitrification) is that it will reduce the time of (cold) ischemia and eliminate the harmful effects of remote blood washout and transport of a patient on … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Asanguineous, Jerry Leaf, Mike Darwin, Organ Preservation, Perfusion
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