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: Nanotechnology
The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension
This book review was originally published in Cryonics magazine, 1st Quarter, 2011. Editor-in-chief, cryobiologist, and aging researcher Gregory M. Fahy and his associate editors Michael D. West, L. Stephen Cole and Steven B. Harris have compiled what might be the … Continue reading
Posted in Rejuvenation, Science
Tagged Biogerontology, Gregory Fahy, Interventive Gerontology, Joshua Mitteldorf, Michael R. Rose, Michael Rae, Nanotechnology, NENS, Ray Kurzweil, Rejuvenation, Robert Freitas, SENS, Stephen Cole, The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension, Thomas Donaldson
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Ken Hayworth on straight freezing in cryonics
Ken Hayworth’s idea of promoting a fixation-based alternative to brain cryopreservation is something I am highly sympathetic to overall, and I hope some progress in this direction results from the work he is doing and trying to induce others to … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Brain Preservation, Chemical Fixation, Chemopreservation, Cryonics, Ken Hayworth, Nanotechnology, Plastination
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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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Reversible cryopreservation
On the forum of the Immortality Institute there is an interesting exchange about the feasibility and time line for reversible cryopreservation. Cryobiologist Brian Wowk weighs in with some interesting observations: I think in the next 20 years more small animal … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Brain Cryopreservation, Brian Wowk, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Ischemia, Nanotechnology, 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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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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Robert Freitas discusses the future of nanomedicine
Nanotechnology idea-man Robert Freitas, Jr. has published an article in the January 2009 issue of Life Extension Magazine providing a tutorial in nanomedicine and documenting its progression toward real-world application. In “Nanotechnology and Radically Extended Life Span,” Freitas describes several … Continue reading
Nanotechnology: The message matters
A recently conducted study brings a warning to technophiles who think that the facts are all that matter when informing a group of people about a new technology. The fact of the matter is that the message matters more. In … Continue reading
Eric Drexler launches Metamodern blog
Molecular nanotechnology pioneer and cryonics advocate Eric Drexler has launched his own blog called Metamodern: The Trajectory of Technology. This is what we can expect: In this blog, I’ll discuss current progress in science and technology, often with a specific … Continue reading
Brownian motion and nanotechnology
Brownian motion started when Robert Brown looked into his microscope and observed that pollen suspended in water moved around in a continuous random motion. Wanting to rule out some “vital life force,” Brown also investigated dead things such as sand … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Bionanotechnology, Brownian Motion, Eric Drexler, Nanotechnology, Richard Jones
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Convergence08
“On November 15-16, 2008, the world’s most dangerous ideas will collide in Mountain View, California. Convergence08 examines the world-changing possibilities of nanotech and the life-changing promises of biotech. It is the premier forum for debate and exploration of cogtech ethics, … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Convergence08, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology
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Soft nanotechnology
Ever since humans imagined the ability to deliberately manipulate matter on the atomic scale, they have glimpsed the boundless possibilities of the science of nanotechnology. And for almost as long, they have disputed whether molecular machines should be built using … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Science
Tagged Eric Drexler, Nanotechnology, Richard Jones, Synthetic Biology
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Radical life extension and information-theoretic death
Immortality as a zero probability of information-theoretic death may not be possible or realistic. A more practical (and less controversial) objective of radical life extension would be to minimize the chance of information-theoretic death. In analogy with Aubrey de Grey’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Aging, Cryonics, Death, Immortality, Nanotechnology, SENS
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Warm biostasis through nanotechnology
One concern about chemical fixation as a low cost alternative to cryonics is that current fixatives may not be able to permanently fix all biomolecules that are important to preserve the identity of the person. A related concern is that … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics
Tagged Anesthesia, Chemical Fixation, Cryonics, Eric Drexler, Nanotechnology, Robert Freitas
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Biostasis through chemopreservation
Twenty years ago, Charles B. Olson published an article called “A Possible Cure for Death” in the journal Medical Hypotheses. In it, he favorably compares methods of chemical preservation to cryogenic preservation. Unfortunately, this article provoked no wide discussion or … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Death
Tagged Cryonics, Death, Mind Uploading, Nanotechnology, Reanimation
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