[TECH NEWS] A new research project at the University of Leicester, UK is set to play a vital role in continuing research into viable alternatives to invasive autopsies, which many families find to be unpleasant. The research team at the University of Leicester’s East Midlands Forensic Pathology Unit has won a substantive award by the National Institute for Health Research… Read more »
[WEB EXCLUSIVE] Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives By the Year 2100, by Michio Kaku, Ph.D. New York: Doubleday, 2011. A review by Mark Plus Many cryonicists like to think about something called “the future” (TF) more than other people, and in a more self-interested way than most. Our quest for cryotransport… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] A gene has been linked to at least three cancers in different tissues in the body, US researchers say. Their findings, reported in the journal Science, showed a fifth of melanomas (skin cancer), Ewing’s sarcomas (bone) and glioblastomas (brain) had a defective copy of the gene STAG2. It controls the way genetic material is divided between cells. A… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by abnormal proteins that stick together in little globs, disrupting cognitive function (thinking, learning, and memory). These sticky proteins are mostly made up of beta-amyloid peptide. A better understanding of these proteins, how they form, and how they affect brain function will no doubt improve the diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. To this… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In a cancer treatment breakthrough 20 years in the making, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine have shown sustained remissions of up to a year among a small group of advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients treated with genetically engineered versions of their own T cells. The protocol involves removing… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, 3rd Quarter 2011 By Cairn Erfreuliche Idun LIKEABLE Everyone I know who has expressed an opinion about Aschwin likes him. Brilliant, hardworking, effective and dedicated to improving cryonics also apply to Aschwin. That combination benefits cryonics – benefits all of us. One of our public figures who relates well to a wide range of humanity increases our… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, 3rd Quarter 2011 By Michael R. Rose Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Everyone whom I know to be registered for cryopreservation does so because they don’t want to die, for good and forever. That is to say, they are some type of immortalist. They may not be cyber-immortalists waiting to be uploaded to… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, 3rd Quarter 2011 See also the Chronology of Developments Related to Fracturing and Intermediate Temperature Storage at the end of this document. By Brian Wowk, PhD Introduction Cryopreservation by vitrification partially replaces water inside cells and tissue with chemicals called cryoprotectants that prevent ice formation. At high enough concentrations, cryoprotectants can prevent freezing. Instead of freezing, the… Read more »
The 2011 3rd quarter issue of Cryonics magazine features a richly illustrated review and update of Intermediate Temperature Storage (ITS). ITS technologies will allow for long term care of cryonics patients at low subzero temperatures with reduced or no fracturing events. This issue also includes a timeline that tracks the history of ITS. Biologist Michael Rose, Ph.D., outlines his unorthodox… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] In a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection. In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoS One, the researchers tested… Read more »
