Overseas Neuro Dry Ice Shipping Container With specific performance goals provided by Max More and Steve Graber have been developing a super-duty dry ice international neuro shipping container. (SDDIINSC) The unit that Steve developed with input from Hugh Hixon and Aaron Drake provides a superior level of insulation and travel protection, and a dry ice […]
Membership Statistics Alcor had 957 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Two memberships were approved during the month of December, one membership was reinstated, three memberships were cancelled and one member was cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net loss of one member in December. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 42 applicants for membership. Two new applicants […]
Courtesy of the Life Extension Foundation, Alcor is pleased to announce that paper publications of the 1st Quarter 2012 Cryonics magazine will be available shortly. Complimentary printed copies of the Cryonics magazine will be shipped to all members and subscribers sometime next week. To view current and past issues of the Cryonics magazine online click here: Cryonics Magazine.
The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.
The Alcor Northern California meeting will be held this Sunday, January 8, 2012, at 4:00 pm. The meeting will take place at the recreation room of Cypress Point Lakes condominiums: 505 Cypress Point Drive, Mountain View, California. Attendees are asked to bring a favorite dish to share and swimming attire for the sauna and hot tubs/hot […]
During the month of November the research and development team made a field trip to a local medical CT scanning service, taking with them two recent neuro patients. Due to circumstances surrounding their death, one patient was cryoprotected and the other was not. Patient safety is Alcor’s main objective, and with that in mind our […]
Alcor member A-1277 was pronounced on Friday, December 9, 2011. A whole body case, A-1277 became Alcor’s 110th patient. A member in the Yonkers, New York area had been in and out of the ICU at a local hospital for more than two months. Her son, also a member, was the liaison between Alcor and […]
In November, Steve Graber reported on a table cooldown test to -80C using saline water which demonstrated that the water bags in the cooldown chamber experienced difficulty passing through the ice temperature barrier, resulting in a very long cooldown process. Ultimately the test was stopped before the bags reached any appreciable cooling. Additionally, the research […]
Membership Statistics Alcor had 958 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Seven memberships were approved during the month of November, one membership was reinstated, no memberships were cancelled and one member was cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net gain of seven members in November. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 44 applicants for membership. Seven new applicants […]
The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for FRIDAY , January 6, 2012, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.