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• Woman Returns To Life After Being Frozen Woman Was 'Technically Dead' Surgeon Says

  A woman who was found frozen in a snow bank and near death is now fully alive and talking again thanks to the officer who found her and the doctors that fought to keep her alive.Tia Ross was recovering this week from frostbite at the Waukesha Memorial Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:59 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: death, frozen, ischemia, Cryonics

• Confident of medical advances, some put faith in freezing

  As Richard Leis Jr. learns about the science of today to provide his livelihood, he's counting on the science of tomorrow to give him a second chance at life if his is cut short. Leis studies geosciences at the University of Arizona and works in the Read More...
  Posted Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:12 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Cryonics

• Eleventh Hour: They Only Freeze the Heads!

  Really! Most of us are familiar with the idea of cryogenically freezing recently dead people, right? Companies freeze the corpse shortly after death to very low temperatures, in the hopes of preserving the person until such time as scientists can reverse Read More...
  Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 5:38 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Cryonics

• A science without a deadline

  The year is 2058. Masked and gowned medical personnel work eagerly around a still figure lying on a grey, sterile operating table. These doctors and nurses are repairing the patient’s damaged organs, one by one.This operation is more complex than Read More...
  Posted Saturday, November 08, 2008 3:13 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Cryonics

• Cloning From the Frozen Dead

  Scientists in Japan say they have successfully cloned a mouse from a body that had been frozen for 16 years, theoretically opening the door to a range of possibilities from preserving endangered animals, to resurrecting extinct animals to cloning Ted Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:39 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cloning, Cryonics

• 'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation

  Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures. Their laboratory-produced first-of-a-kind proteins could have Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:27 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cryonics

• With Body Worlds or Fairfax Cryobank, Immortality is Within Reach

  Are you ready to live forever? No longer must you search in vain for a life extension the old fashioned ways of occultism, and instead there are some other means of keeping you around for posterity. While medicine and science are still lagging behind Read More...
  Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 10:21 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Immortalism, Cryonics

• Cryonics movement leader `deanimates'

  The Plantation psychologist was a funny guy who was serious about life after death. Dr. Steven P. Rievman, a Plantation, Florida psychologist, believed in a better world to come and figured his best shot at being part of it was putting himself on ice. Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:45 PM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Rievman, Cryonics

• Scientific Justification of Cryonics Practice

  By Ben Best, Cryonics Institute, Clinton Township, Michigan The scientific justification for the practice of cryonics is based on several key concepts: (1) Low temperature can slow metabolism. Sufficiently low temperature can virtually stop chemical changes Read More...
  Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 11:22 AM by Editor / 0 Comments

  Tags: Cryonics

• What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2189?

  A new fictional children's book, "21st Century Kids" by Shannon Vyff (Warren Publishing, March 2007), explores the idea that two children, killed in a car accident, are cryo... Read more
  Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:30 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 1 Comments

  Tags: Science fiction, Cryonics, Technology forecasting