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by porejide 3y ago
This is currently happening with ovarian tissue: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558345/
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by porejide 3y ago
Here is a timeline of developments in the space over time, created by Mati Roy: https://timelines.issarice.com/wiki/Timeline_of_brain_preser...
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by porejide 3y ago
I don't work for Alcor, never have, and I have no financial relationship with them. More importantly, what makes you ask that? Are you attempting to imply that my statements are factually incorrect?
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by porejide 3y ago
> Who knows who eventually owns/operates Alcor? Anyone who looks them up online can find this information easily. It is required to be public since they are a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Here are their current board of directors: https:&
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by porejide 3y ago
> freezer burnt Freezer burn occurs when moisture escapes from frozen biospecimens due to slow freezing and temperature fluctuations. It's not an issue during storage in liquid nitrogen, which causes much faster freezing and has a m
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by porejide 3y ago
The issue with antipsychotics tends to be the side effects, not the efficacy Amisulpride, for a lot of people, would be one of the best antipsychotics. Antipsychotics are incredibly important medications for a lot of people. It really matte
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by porejide 3y ago
> This sounds like a recipe for killing people. Do you know what else sounds like a recipe for killing people? Not allowing people to access therapeutics that might save their life because it hasn't yet gone through regulatory appro
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Brain preservation to prevent involuntary death: a possible cause area(forum.effectivealtruism.org)
2 points by porejide 5y ago|0 comments
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The Cryonics Industry Would Like to Give You the Past Year, and Many More, Back(nytimes.com)
2 points by porejide 5y ago|0 comments
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by porejide 6y ago
I apologize and wish I could have presented it better. I first compiled this in 2019 and had been planning to summarize it more. Alas, I recently realized that I wouldn't have the energy for that and that I should simply publish as is.
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by porejide 6y ago
Very fair point. There are other examples that go beyond DHCA, though, and point clearly in the same direction. One example is that sometimes people suffer cardiac arrests and lose consciousness for minutes to hours 10.1016/j.resuscita
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by porejide 7y ago
So if your point is a separate one, that Alcor et al might have to close, eg as a result of war or global financial collapse, then that is a very reasonable point and absolutely a potential cause of failure. It is one of the things that Tim
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by porejide 7y ago
Alcor and Oregon Cryonics have patient care trusts that are designed to build capital to pay for revival: https://alcor.org/AboutAlcor/patientcaretrustfund.html "It doesn’t do any good to use the most advanced tec
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A tech preserving synapses in the whole brain of a large mammal wins BPF prize(brainpreservation.org)
2 points by porejide 9y ago|0 comments
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by porejide 10y ago
I'm working towards a phd in genomics right now, primarily doing bioinformatics. Here are some thoughts: 1. You're almost certainly likely to make more money doing something else, like web development or finance. Scientists get pa
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by porejide 10y ago
Code: totally agreed. Data: tricky, because of privacy and HIPPA.
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by porejide 10y ago
Right, and in fact this is known to be the case: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/04/16/048991 My summary: https://brainslab.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/shared-genet
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What I learned from eight years of tracking my life statistics(andrewtmckenzie.com)
1 points by porejide 10y ago|0 comments
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The Brain Preservation Foundation Small Mammal Prize Has Been Won(brainpreservation.org)
9 points by porejide 11y ago|1 comments
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Nine paradoxes with a statistical theme(andrewtmckenzie.com)
6 points by porejide 11y ago|1 comments
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by porejide 11y ago
Great point -- there's a huge disconnect between what is needed in terms of the data and algorithm development and the profit motive. This is why I think some portions of this, especially the data generation and curation portions, may
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Technical debt: probably the main roadblack for machine learning to medicine(andrewtmckenzie.com)
4 points by porejide 11y ago|2 comments
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by porejide 11y ago
In my reading there were three parts of the article: Part I: Optimism. Is this a new curative treatment for a cancer with an extremely poor prognosis? We get to see Muizelaar's perspective on why he (presumably) thought he was doing th
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by porejide 11y ago
It is clear that you have done a good amount of research, which is great! If you look further, you will find that in fact there are plenty of people who are interested in precisely this aspect of brain preservation/cryonics. See, for e
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A major milestone has been reached in our Brain Preservation Prize(blog.brainpreservation.org)
64 points by porejide 11y ago|57 comments
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Shorter telomeres probably do not cause accelerated aging(andrewtmckenzie.com)
2 points by porejide 11y ago|0 comments
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by porejide 12y ago
So do most medical schools in the US. Eg, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Scientist_Training_Prog...