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The Multi-Headed Hydra

This article explores some of the regulatory challenges facing those who would bring rejuvenation biotechnologies, like those pursued by Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the

September 16, 2016September 16, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh16 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

How Uniform Are The Uniform Anatomical Gift Acts?

“SECTION 11. PERSONS THAT MAY RECEIVE ANATOMICAL GIFT; PURPOSE OF ANATOMICAL GIFT” Thus begins a very important section of a very important piece of legislation.

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh11 Min Reading
Cryonics, Science

Advances in Cryoprotectant Toxicity Research

There is little disagreement among cryobiologists that the biggest limiting factor to reversible organ cryopreservation is cryoprotectant toxicity. It is actually not that hard to

July 1, 2016August 8, 2016 by Aschwin de Wolf6 Min Reading
Cryonics, News

Groundbreaking Scientific Results Prove that the Proposition of Human Medical Biostasis has Potential and Needs to be Brought into Mainstream Scientific and Medical Focus

Breaking News [Media Press Package with additional detail] A team from 21st Century Medicine has developed a technology that has been independently verified to enable near-perfect,

February 9, 2016February 10, 2016 by Aschwin de Wolf2 Min Reading
Cryonics, Neuroscience

Recent developments relevant to cryonics

A lot of interesting pieces related to cryonics have appeared over the last few months that I thought I would share: Four professors conclude in

February 9, 2016 by Aschwin de Wolf2 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Who speaks for the dead?

Do the dead have rights, in the proper sense of the word? That is to say, when someone is obligated to do something with a dead person, like

January 6, 2016 by Keegan Macintosh8 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Beyond Skull and Skin: Concepts of Identity and the Growth of Cryonics

Introduction “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” So begins a 1998 paper by Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers

June 1, 2015June 11, 2024 by Aschwin de Wolf17 Min Reading
Cryonics, Society

Cryonics as a measure of rationality?

Most cryonics advocates are often frustrated by the amount irrationality, ignorance, and hostility when other people encounter the idea of human cryopreservation. It should not

May 6, 2015February 19, 2018 by Aschwin de Wolf5 Min Reading
Health, Neuroscience, Society

Though She Isn’t Really Ill, There’s a Little Yellow Pill…

Humans have been ingesting mindand mood-altering substances for millennia, but it has only rather recently become possible to begin to elucidate drug mechanisms of action

February 13, 2015February 13, 2015 by Chana Phaedra12 Min Reading
Health, Science

An End to the Virus

Breakthroughs in medicine have increased substantially over the last hundred years, and most would agree that the introduction of antibiotics in 1942 has been one

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 by Chana Phaedra7 Min Reading
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