[TECH NEWS] The Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE is a $10 million global competition to stimulate innovation and integration of precision diagnostic technologies, making reliable health diagnoses available directly to “health consumers” in their homes. The dire need for improvements in health and healthcare in the U.S. has captured the attention of government, industry, and private citizens for years. But a… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] The smallest transistor ever built—in fact, the smallest transistor that can be built—has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University of Melbourne. The single-atom device was described Sunday (Feb. 19) in a paper in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. Michelle Simmons,… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] The quest to grow meat in a lab rather than on an animal is due to reach its climax this fall, with the first-ever culture-dish hamburger served to a celebrity taster after a $330,000 development effort. Mark Post, a physiologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, said the project is being funded by an anonymous investor… Read more »
The January-February 2012 issue of Cryonics marks the return of Alcor’s magazine as a bi-monthly professionally printed publication. This issue features two major articles on cryonics and brain-threatening disorders. The first article, by Cryonics editor Aschwin de Wolf, provides a framework for thinking about identity-destroying brain diseases and discusses what Alcor members can do to prevent them from threatening your… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] By Chana de Wolf Following an arduous search lasting many months, Alcor was pleased to hire long-time member Max More to the CEO position in January 2011. Max comes to Alcor with an extensive background as a writer, speaker, and philosopher of futurist topics and as an activist for life extension technologies, including cryonics. Readers of Cryonics magazine… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] By R. Michael Perry [Update of an article that appeared in Cryonics, 1st Q. 2010] INTRODUCTION As cryonicists we want to be cryopreserved with mental faculties intact. Prospects for this are threatened if one has a brain disorder such as malignancy or Alzheimer’s disease—or simply advancing old age, with its usual risk of strokes and other brain damage…. Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] By Aschwin de Wolf Introduction Many people who have made cryonics arrangements tend to think of it as a “back-up plan” in case hoped-for breakthroughs in rejuvenation will be too late to help them or as protection against lethal accidents. Their confident hope is that, if other workarounds don’t pan out, they will die from an age-related disease… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] Neuroscientists at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have made a dramatic breakthrough in their efforts to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers’ findings, published in the journal Science, show that use of a drug in mice appears to quickly reverse the pathological, cognitive and memory deficits caused by the onset of Alzheimer’s. The results point… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting. Even fasting on its own effectively treated a majority of cancers tested in animals, including cancers from human cells. The study in Science Translational Medicine, part… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In a small study that might sound like science fiction, researchers could predict what people were hearing based on their brain activity. “As you listen to a sound, it activates certain parts of the auditory cortex of your brain,” said Brian Pasley, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist and lead author of the study published Jan. 31 in PLoS Biology…. Read more »
