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91 relations: Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Ancient Greek, Aortic arch, BBC News, Bioethics (journal), Biological engineering, Biomolecule, Brain death, Brain simulation, Brian Wowk, Cadaver, CBC News, Cell (biology), Celsius, Clinical death, Cryobiology, Cryogenic storage dewar, Cryogenics, Cryopreservation, Cryoprotectant, Cryptobiosis, Crystal, Death, Electron microscope, Extropianism, Fahrenheit, Fallout 4, Financial Times, Fixation (histology), Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Futurama, Greg Fahy, Hal Finney (computer scientist), Hibernation, High Court of Justice, Human brain, Ice, Indefinite lifespan, Information-theoretic death, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Iowa Court of Appeals, James Bedford, James Lovelock, Journal of Medical Ethics, K. Eric Drexler, Kelvin, KOIN, KrioRus, L. Stephen Coles, Legal death, ..., Life extension, Long-term memory, Mind uploading, Molecular nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Neuropreservation, New Scientist, Newsweek, Nip/Tuck, Pascal's Wager, Passengers (2016 film), Popular Science, Portland Tribune, Regeneration (biology), Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Ettinger, Salt, Scientific American, Scientific consensus, Smithsonian (magazine), Snopes.com, Stack (abstract data type), Supercooling, Suspended animation, Suspended animation in fiction, Ted Williams, The Door into Summer, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Observer, Timothy Leary, Toronto Sun, United States, Urban legend, Vanilla Sky, Viable count, Walt Disney, Y Combinator, 21st Century Medicine. Expand index (41 more) »
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is a nonprofit organization based in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
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Ancient Greek
The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.
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Aortic arch
The aortic arch, arch of the aorta, or transverse aortic arch is the part of the aorta between the ascending and descending aorta.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Bioethics (journal)
Bioethics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the International Association of Bioethics.
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Biological engineering
Biological engineering or bio-engineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically viable products.
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Biomolecule
A biomolecule or biological molecule is a loosely used term for molecules and ions that are present in organisms, essential to some typically biological process such as cell division, morphogenesis, or development.
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Brain death
Brain death is the complete loss of brain function (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life).
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Brain simulation
Brain simulation is the concept of creating a functioning computer model of a brain or part of a brain.
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Brian Wowk
Brian G. Wowk, Ph.D. is a medical physicist and cryobiologist known for the discovery and development of synthetic molecules that mimic the activity of natural antifreeze proteins in cryopreservation applications, sometimes called "ice blockers".
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Cadaver
A cadaver, also referred to as a corpse (singular) in medical, literary, and legal usage, or when intended for dissection, is a deceased body.
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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Cell (biology)
The cell (from Latin cella, meaning "small room") is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
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Celsius
The Celsius scale, previously known as the centigrade scale, is a temperature scale used by the International System of Units (SI).
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Clinical death
Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two necessary criteria to sustain human and many other organisms' lives.
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Cryobiology
Cryobiology is the branch of biology that studies the effects of low temperatures on living things within Earth's cryosphere or in science.
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Cryogenic storage dewar
A cryogenic storage dewar (named after James Dewar) is a specialised type of vacuum flask used for storing cryogens (such as liquid nitrogen or liquid helium), whose boiling points are much lower than room temperature.
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Cryogenics
In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.
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Cryopreservation
Cryo-preservation or cryo-conservation is a process where organelles, cells, tissues, extracellular matrix, organs or any other biological constructs susceptible to damage caused by unregulated chemical kinetics are preserved by cooling to very low temperatures (typically −80 °C using solid carbon dioxide or −196 °C using liquid nitrogen).
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Cryoprotectant
A cryoprotectant is a substance used to protect biological tissue from freezing damage (i.e. that due to ice formation).
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Cryptobiosis
Cryptobiosis is an ametabolic state of life entered by an organism in response to adverse environmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and oxygen deficiency.
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Crystal
A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions.
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Death
Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.
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Electron microscope
An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination.
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Extropianism
Extropianism, also referred to as the philosophy of Extropy, is an "evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition".
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Fahrenheit
The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by Dutch-German-Polish physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).
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Fallout 4
Fallout 4 is a post-apocalyptic action role-playing video game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.
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Fixation (histology)
In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is the preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California, US.
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Futurama
Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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Greg Fahy
Gregory M. Fahy is a cryobiologist and biogerontologist, and is also Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Twenty-First Century Medicine, Inc.
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Hal Finney (computer scientist)
Harold Thomas Finney II (May 4, 1956 – August 28, 2014) was a developer for PGP Corporation, and was the second developer hired after Phil Zimmermann.
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Hibernation
Hibernation is a state of inactivity and metabolic depression in endotherms.
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High Court of Justice
The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
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Human brain
The human brain is the central organ of the human nervous system, and with the spinal cord makes up the central nervous system.
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Ice
Ice is water frozen into a solid state.
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Indefinite lifespan
Indefinite lifespan (also known as indefinite life extension or bio-indefinite) is a term used in the life extension movement and transhumanism to refer to the hypothetical longevity of humans (and other life-forms) under conditions in which ageing is effectively and completely prevented and treated.
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Information-theoretic death
Information-theoretic death is the scrambling of information within a brain to such an extent that recovery of the original person becomes theoretically impossible.
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is a "technoprogressive think tank" that seeks to contribute to understanding of the likely impact of emerging technologies on individuals and societies by "promoting and publicizing the work of thinkers who examine the social implications of scientific and technological advance".
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Iowa Court of Appeals
The Iowa Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court of the state of Iowa.
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James Bedford
James Hiram Bedford (April 20, 1893 – January 12, 1967) was an American psychology professor at the University of California who wrote several books on occupational counseling.
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James Lovelock
James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.
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Journal of Medical Ethics
The Journal of Medical Ethics is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of bioethics established in 1975.
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K. Eric Drexler
Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s.
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Kelvin
The Kelvin scale is an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale using as its null point absolute zero, the temperature at which all thermal motion ceases in the classical description of thermodynamics.
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KOIN
KOIN, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 40), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Portland, Oregon, United States.
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KrioRus
KrioRus (КриоРус) — the first Russian cryonics company, founded in 2005 as a project by a non-governmental organization Russian Transhumanist Movement.
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L. Stephen Coles
Leslie Stephen Coles (January 19, 1941 – December 3, 2014) was the co-founder and executive director of the Gerontology Research Group where he conducted research on supercentenarians and on aging.
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Legal death
Legal death is a government's official recognition that a person has died.
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Life extension
Life extension science, also known as anti-aging medicine, indefinite life extension, experimental gerontology, and biomedical gerontology, is the study of slowing down or reversing the processes of aging to extend both the maximum and average lifespan.
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Long-term memory
Long-term memory (LTM) is the stage of the Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model where informative knowledge is held indefinitely.
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Mind uploading
Whole brain emulation (WBE), mind upload or brain upload (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical futuristic process of scanning the mental state (including long-term memory and "self") of a particular brain substrate and copying it to a computer.
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Molecular nanotechnology
Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is a technology based on the ability to build structures to complex, atomic specifications by means of mechanosynthesis.
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Nanomedicine
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology.
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Neuropreservation
Neuropreservation is a type of cryonics procedure where the brain is preserved with the intention of future resuscitation and regrowth of a healthy body around the brain.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.
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Nip/Tuck
Nip/Tuck is an American medical drama television series created by Ryan Murphy that aired on FX in the United States from July 22, 2003 to March 3, 2010.
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Pascal's Wager
Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).
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Passengers (2016 film)
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts.
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Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.
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Portland Tribune
The Portland Tribune is a free newspaper published twice weekly, each Tuesday and Thursday, in Portland, Oregon, United States.
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Regeneration (biology)
In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal, restoration, and growth that makes genomes, cells, organisms, and ecosystems resilient to natural fluctuations or events that cause disturbance or damage.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.
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Robert Ettinger
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (December 4, 1918 – July 23, 2011) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.
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Salt
Salt, table salt or common salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl), a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts; salt in its natural form as a crystalline mineral is known as rock salt or halite.
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Scientific American
Scientific American (informally abbreviated SciAm) is an American popular science magazine.
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Scientific consensus
Scientific consensus is the collective judgment, position, and opinion of the community of scientists in a particular field of study.
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Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
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Snopes.com
Snopes.com, formally known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is one of the first online fact-checking websites.
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Stack (abstract data type)
In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type that serves as a collection of elements, with two principal operations.
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Supercooling
Supercooling, also known as undercooling, is the process of lowering the temperature of a liquid or a gas below its freezing point without it becoming a solid.
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Suspended animation
Suspended animation is the inducement of a temporary cessation or decay of main body functions, including the brain, to a hypometabolic state in order to try to preserve its mental and physiological capabilities.
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Suspended animation in fiction
Suspended animation in fiction is the temporary halting of life processes of fictional characters followed by their later revival.
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Ted Williams
Theodore Williams (born Theodore Samuel Williams; August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager.
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The Door into Summer
The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November, December 1956, with covers and interior illustrations by Frank Kelly Freas).
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.
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Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.
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Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Urban legend
An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend is a form of modern folklore.
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Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed, written, and co-produced by Cameron Crowe.
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Viable count
Viable count is a method used in cell culture to determine the number of living cells in a culture.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005.
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21st Century Medicine
21st Century Medicine (21CM) is a California cryobiological research company which has as its primary focus the development of perfusates and protocols for viable long-term cryopreservation of human organs, tissues and cells at cryogenic temperatures (temperatures below −100 °C) through the use of vitrification.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics
