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The Central Florida Life Extension Meetup Group Alcor American Cryonics Society Cryonics Institute Immortality Institute IEET SENS (Aubrey de Grey) Ralph Merkle Nanomedicine Robert Freitas Jr. Singularity Institute
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"Do you want to be in the control group or the experimental group?" - attributed to R. Merkle
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying."
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Lazarus Labrat Prize Summary contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| Some of you were fortunate enough to be at the Alcor/Cryonics conference in Scottsdale last week. Among the many projects discussed was the idea for a PRIZE for bringing back a small mammal from cryonic temperatures. Patterned after both the "X-Prize" and the Methusalah Mouse Prize, the basic idea is very straightforward: A prize, which we hope will eventually top ten million dollars US, for the team or laboratory able to take a rat, hamster, or small rodent/mammal to liquid nitrogen temperature (-196 C.) and restore function including brain function upon rewarming. There will be interim goals to be defined and announced, perhaps involving insects, small multicellular organisms, and very cold temperatures warmer than the "glass transition" of about -`124 C. |
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MIT in situ real time imaging of cells at 0.2 nm resolution contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| Researchers at MIT are developing a microscope based on quantitative phase imaging that allows observation of living cells down to a resolution of 0.2 nanometers. They aren't yet able to see inside the cells, just the cell membrane, but hope to overcome this limitation in the near future. | ||||||||
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Caloric Restriction study results good for anti-aging contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| Primates given a reduced coloric diet in an ongoing study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are heathier and show less signs of aging. These are the preliminary results from an 18 year study of 76 rhesus monkeys. It'll take another ten years to find out definitively if the monkeys on coloric restriction actually live longer. | ||||||||
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Survey finds many Australians don’t like life extension contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| "MANY people would refuse a chance to extend their life if it meant being lonely, contributing to overpopulation or missing out on the afterlife, a study has found." So says a new survey by the University of Queensland in Australia. Misworded survey questions can skew results and allow researches to come to the wrong conclusions. Either way we still have a long way to go in the cryonics / life extension PR department. |
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Ray Kurzweil to appear live on CSPAN In Depth Sunday Nov 5th contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| Ray Kurzweil will be on CSPAN's three hour interview and call in show 'In Depth' on Sunday November 5th at 12 p.m. eastern. The CSPAN site does not indicate who will be interviewing Ray. | ||||||||
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Craig Venter and Google work to ’Google your genes’ contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| According to David A. Vise author of 'The Google Story' Google and Craig Venter, the man who successfully sequenced his own genome, will team up to apply Google's search algorithms to the human genome. | ||||||||
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NPR: hibernating squirrels lose then recover neural connections contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| H Craig Heller professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University is doing research with hibernating golden-mantled ground squirrels. The squirrel's neurons shut down for upto two weeks at a time and lose between 20-40% of their synapses and yet can recover them in about two hours. NPR had an interview with one of the researchers on Monday. |
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Copper critical for synaptic functioning contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered an important mechanism in the modulation of neurotransmitters at synapses. Senior author Jonathan D. Gitlin, M.D said "We've found that copper modulates very critical events within the central nervous system that influence how well we think." Copper ions released into synapses inhibit NMDA receptors which in turn control the connection strength of the synapse. The genes that encode for Atp7a the protein carrier of the copper ions may account for some of the differences in intelligence between individuals. |
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NASA contracts firm for 50000 tons of Liquid Nitrogen Annually contributed by member on 2006-10-17 |
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| NASA is contracting a Pennsylvania company to built a liquid nitrogen producing plant capable of producing 50000 tons per year at NASA Langley in Virginia. The liquid nitrogen will be used at the center's cyrogenic windtunnel facility. I know this story isn't really pertinent to the site but if this undertaking by NASA has any effect on the market price of liquid nitrogen it would affect cryonics organizations. |
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