cryonics – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:23:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 New facility could allow humans to freeze their bodies and outlive an apocalypse https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/new-facility-could-allow-humans-to-freeze-their-bodies-and-outlive-an-apocalypse https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/new-facility-could-allow-humans-to-freeze-their-bodies-and-outlive-an-apocalypse#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:23:57 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/new-facility-could-allow-humans-to-freeze-their-bodies-and-outlive-an-apocalypse

Imagine you could pause your life and wake up in the future.

A new groundbreaking facility could allow humans to freeze their bodies and potentially wake up in the future.

The company behind the project, TimeShift, describes itself as the world’s first AI-powered cryopreservation facility. It combines advanced AI technology with novel cryopreservation techniques.

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Eli Mohamad & Kai Micah Mills — Advancing Frontiers Of Cryopreservation & Biological Replacement https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/eli-mohamad-kai-micah-mills-advancing-frontiers-of-cryopreservation-biological-replacement https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/eli-mohamad-kai-micah-mills-advancing-frontiers-of-cryopreservation-biological-replacement#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:29:01 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/eli-mohamad-kai-micah-mills-advancing-frontiers-of-cryopreservation-biological-replacement

Biological replacement and cryopreservation to significantly extend human lifespans — eli mohamad & kai micah mills — hydradao and cryodao.


Eli Mohamad is a prominent figure in the biotech, space, and AI industries who has co-founded several successful startups and has a real passion for groundbreaking ventures that focus on the development of futuristic technologies.

Currently as a Core Team Member at CryoDAO (https://www.cryodao.org/), a decentralized organization focused on sourcing and funding research in cryopreservation, Eli continues to work at the forefront of innovative technologies and applies his extensive experience in biotechnology and innovative projects to advance novel cryopreservation technologies and their various applications, from critical tissue and organ preservation, to cryo-sleep and suspended animation for space exploration.

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World’s first cryopreservation facility could unlock immortality, delay death https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/worlds-first-cryopreservation-facility-could-unlock-immortality-delay-death https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/worlds-first-cryopreservation-facility-could-unlock-immortality-delay-death#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 00:08:33 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/01/worlds-first-cryopreservation-facility-could-unlock-immortality-delay-death

Think of a future where terminal illnesses can be temporarily halted, allowing time for the development of potential cures.

TimeShift, the world’s first cryopreservation facility, seeks to make the impossible – extending human lifespan – a reality.

The conceptualized facility would provide a means of freezing or preserving patients’ bodies with terminal illnesses. This way, it could mitigate the progression of neurodegenerative diseases and aggressive cancers. And possibly enable experts to develop a cure.

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Uploading the brain to live forever might work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:30:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/12/uploading-the-brain-to-live-forever-might-work

Dr. Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston hopes to pick up the movement where Jones left off, albeit with the significant twist that his version does not require freezing. A research fellow at Melbourne’s Monash University, Zeleznikow-Johnston wrote the new book, “The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death,” which makes the case that cryopreservation is possible and should be more widely available. Rejecting the popular notion that death endows life with meaning as “palliative philosophy,” Zeleznikow-Johnston’s book instead argues a human’s connectome — a high-resolution map of all their brain connections — could be theoretically recorded perfectly before they die.

Once that happens, that same internal brain activity could be recreated through high-powered computers, while a new brain is grown in a vat via stem cells or some combination of the two. As such, Zeleznikow-Johnston is proposing a spiritual descendant to the cryonics movement (which he dismisses as “unscientific” and “unsubstantiated”), one where the focus is not on preserving tissues but on the “data,” so to speak, of our distinct connectomes.

“We have very strong evidence that the static structure of the neurons is enough to hold onto someone’s memories and personality.”

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How tiny droplets can deform ice: Findings show potential for cryopreservation and food engineering https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 07:44:50 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/11/how-tiny-droplets-can-deform-ice-findings-show-potential-for-cryopreservation-and-food-engineering

When water freezes slowly, the location where water turns into ice—known as the freezing front—forms a straight line. Researchers from the University of Twente showed how droplets that interact with such a freezing front cause surprising deformations of this front. These new insights were published in Physical Review Letters and show potential for applications in cryopreservation and food engineering techniques.

When water freezes, it is often thought of as a predictable, solid block forming layer by layer. But what happens if the progressing freezing front encounters or ? Researchers from the University of Twente have explored this question, discovering that droplets can cause surprising deformations in the way ice forms.

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How to Live Forever: Scientific Breakthroughs Are Bringing Us Closer to Immortality https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/how-to-live-forever-scientific-breakthroughs-are-bringing-us-closer-to-immortality https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/how-to-live-forever-scientific-breakthroughs-are-bringing-us-closer-to-immortality#respond Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:22:58 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/10/how-to-live-forever-scientific-breakthroughs-are-bringing-us-closer-to-immortality

The biological and technological race to live forever is very much underway.

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Scientists devise Method to Secure Earth’s Biodiversity on the Moon https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/scientists-devise-method-to-secure-earths-biodiversity-on-the-moon Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:24:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/scientists-devise-method-to-secure-earths-biodiversity-on-the-moon

Proposed lunar biorepository could store genetic samples without electricity or liquid nitrogen. New research led by scientists at the Smithsonian proposes a plan to safeguard Earth’s imperiled biodiversity by cryogenically preserving biological material on the moon. The moon’s permanently shadowed craters are cold enough for cryogenic preservation without the need for electricity or liquid nitrogen, according to the researchers.

The paper, published today in BioScience and written in collaboration with researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and others, outlines a roadmap to create a lunar biorepository, including ideas for governance, the types of biological material to be stored and a plan for experiments to understand and address challenges such as radiation and microgravity. The study also demonstrates the successful cryopreservation of skin samples from a fish, which are now stored at the National Museum of Natural History.

“Initially, a lunar biorepository would target the most at-risk species on Earth today, but our ultimate goal would be to cryopreserve most species on Earth,” said Mary Hagedorn, a research cryobiologist at NZCBI and lead author of the paper. “We hope that by sharing our vision, our group can find additional partners to expand the conversation, discuss threats and opportunities and conduct the necessary research and testing to make this biorepository a reality.”

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These scientists want to safeguard Earth’s species by cryogenically preserving them on the moon https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon Mon, 05 Aug 2024 17:24:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/08/these-scientists-want-to-safeguard-earths-species-by-cryogenically-preserving-them-on-the-moon

A group of scientists has devised a plan to safeguard Earth’s species in a cryogenic biorepository on the moon.

Intended to save species in the event of a disaster on Earth, the plan makes use of craters that are permanently in shadow and therefore cold enough to allow cryogenic preservation of biological material without using electricity or liquid nitrogen, according to research from a group led by scientists at the Smithsonian, published last week.

The paper, published in the journal BioScience, draws on the successful cryopreservation of skin samples from a fish, and outlines a method for creating a biorepository that would keep samples of other species safe.

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GCS: Global Cryonics Summit, Miami Florida July 20 & 21 2024 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/gcs-global-cryonics-summit-miami-florida-july-20-21-2024 Fri, 21 Jun 2024 23:22:27 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/06/gcs-global-cryonics-summit-miami-florida-july-20-21-2024

Bringing together the global cryonics field including leaders, researchers, and members.

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Chinese researchers successfully revive human brain frozen for 18 months https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/chinese-researchers-successfully-revive-human-brain-frozen-for-18-months Fri, 24 May 2024 04:28:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/chinese-researchers-successfully-revive-human-brain-frozen-for-18-months

In a stunning scientific feat in the field of cryonics, a team from Fudan University in Shanghai achieved a monumental breakthrough by successfully reviving a human brain that had been frozen for as long as 18 months. This record breaking achievement not only shatters previous records in cryogenic technology but has also been published in the esteemed academic journal Cell Reports Methods.

The team led by Shao Zhicheng created a revolutionary cryopreservation method, dubbed MEDY, which preserves the structural integrity and functionality of neural cells, allowing for the preservation of various brain tissues and human brain specimens. This advancement holds immense promise not only for research into neurological disorders but also opens up possibilities for the future of human cryopreservation technology.

Professor Joao Pedro Magalhaes from the University of Birmingham K expressed profound astonishment at the development, hailing the technology’s ability to prevent cell death and help preserve neural functionality as nothing short of miraculous. He speculated that in the future, terminally ill patients could be cryopreserved, awaiting cures that may emerge, while astronauts could be frozen for interstellar travel, awakening in distant galaxies.

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