[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] Cryonics, January-February 2012 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… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] Cryonics, January-February 2012 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… Read more »
[FEATURED ARTICLE] By Aschwin de Wolf Cryonics, January-February 2012 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… 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 »
[TECH NEWS] One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain how the aging process occurs in the brain. The scientists discovered that certain proteins, called extremely long-lived proteins (ELLPs), which are found… Read more »
[TECH NEWS] A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, provides even more reason for people to read a book or do a puzzle, and to make such activities a lifetime habit. Brain scans revealed that people with no symptoms of Alzheimer’s who engaged in cognitively stimulating activities throughout their lives had fewer deposits of beta-amyloid,… Read more »
