Tag Archives: SENS

Fifth SENS Conference

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Ben Best

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 →

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The Future of Aging: Pathways to Human Life Extension

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 →

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Support real progress in life extension

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Aschwin de Wolf

As we start the new year, it is helpful to draw attention to the sobering fact that no credible human rejuvenation therapies are available today, and it is doubtful that such therapies will see the light of day in the … Continue reading →

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Cryonics Oregon june meeting report

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Ben Best

About 35 people attended the Cryonics Oregon-sponsored debate on the subject of SENS. Chana de Wolf was mistress of ceremonies. A show of hands indicated that the great majority of those attending were signed-up cryonicists. There was a sizeable contingent … Continue reading →

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Cryonics Oregon June Meeting with Aubrey de Grey and Ben Best

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf

On June 6th the next Cryonics Oregon meeting will coincide with a downtown Portland aging conference. As a result we have been successful in persuading Cryonics Institute President Ben Best and Alcor member and biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey to attend … Continue reading →

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Ben Best on the feasibility of cryonics at SENS3

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Aschwin de Wolf
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The 2009 SENS Conference

Posted on September 13, 2009 by Ben Best

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 →

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Radical life extension and information-theoretic death

Posted on June 22, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf

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 →

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Aging 2008

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Aschwin de Wolf

Press Release Methuselah Foundation Announces Aging 2008 at UCLA Have you ever dreamed of climbing Mt. Everest – on your 125th birthday? Los Angeles, CA (May 19, 2008) On Friday June 27th, leading scientists and thinkers in stem cell research … Continue reading →

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