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  • “Out of his mind” surgeon plans human head transplant, revival of frozen brain

    04/28/2017 10:45:51 PM PDT · by RArtfulogerDodger · 35 replies
    ARS Technica ^ | April 28, 2017 | Beth Mole
    Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero will undertake the first human head transplant later this year in China, the doctor told German magazine Ooom in an article published Thursday. And, following that effort, he will revive a cryogenically frozen brain and transplant it into a donor body within the next three years. The plans, completely disconnected from reality and the state of modern medicine, are at least in line with his previous outlandish goals and dubious animal research. Canavero made headlines in the past few years by claiming that transplanting the whole head of a human onto a donor body is currently...
  • Reviving Dead Only Matter of Time, British Futurist Says

    12/26/2016 1:26:33 PM PST · by kevcol · 85 replies
    Newsmax ^ | December 26, 2016 | Brian Freeman
    Alcor, which began storing bodies in 1982, is one of the world's largest cryogenic facilities. It has 1,100 paying members on its books, and there are currently 149 patients at the facility, including the youngest person ever cryo-preserved (a two-year-old from Thailand), as well as baseball star Ted Williams. "These people are potentially revivable – they are like people in a deep coma. They have rights, they can't just be disposed of at any time," More insisted. The company has a watch list of members in declining health. A "standby" team is sent to be nearby the patient when he...
  • (Baseball Legend) Ted Williams' Frozen Head For Batting Practice At Cryogenics Lab: Book

    10/04/2009 9:43:07 AM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 21 replies · 2,322+ views
    NYDailyNews.com ^ | Friday, October 2, 2009 | Nathaniel Vinton
    Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book BY Nathaniel Vinton DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says. AP Ted Williams, who spent his entire career with the Red Sox, died in 2002 at the age of 83. 'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head. Take our PollCryonics: Critical or near-criminal? In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation...
  • Frozen mice cloned - are woolly mammoths next? - how about Ted Williams?

    11/03/2008 3:10:47 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 23 replies · 683+ views
    reuters ^ | Mon Nov 3, 2008 5:30pm EST
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species..."There is hope in bringing Ted Williams back, after all," cloning and stem cell expert John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania said in an e-mail. The family of Williams, the Boston Red Sox hitter, had his body frozen by cryogenics firm Alcor after he died in 2002..."
  • Slow-frozen People? Latest Research Supports Possibility Of Cyropreservation

    06/22/2006 9:29:34 AM PDT · by Momaw Nadon · 9 replies · 436+ views
    ScienceDaily ^ | Tuesday, June 20, 2006 | ScienceDaily
    The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study – seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cyropreserved without formation of damaging ice crystals, according to University of Helsinki researcher Anatoli Bogdan, Ph.D. He conducted the study, scheduled for the July 6 issue of the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B, one of 34 peer-review journals published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. In medicine, cryopreservation involves preserving organs and tissues for transplantation or other...
  • Ted Williams' body mishandled?

    08/14/2003 5:10:32 AM PDT · by Momaw Nadon · 4 replies · 306+ views
    The Arizona Republic ^ | Aug. 13, 2003 12:00 AM | Peter Corbett
    <p>A Scottsdale cryonics company is disputing a story in today's issue of Sports Illustrated that claims the company decapitated baseball great Ted Williams' body, mishandled it and has lost samples of his DNA.</p> <p>Carlos Mondragon, a director of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, said the magazine's report relied on allegations from a disgruntled employee, Larry Johnson, who until this week had been the company's chief operating officer.</p>
  • GOTTA SEE THIS -The War for Enduring Freedom 7/20/02

    07/20/2002 4:02:48 AM PDT · by Diogenesis · 22 replies · 287+ views
    Yahoo, Reuters, AP and more | 7/20/02
    GOTTA SEE THIS -The War for Enduring Freedom+ 7/20/02 [Part 2] Kabul, Shomali, Jammu, Lebanon, Ain al-Hilweh, Vanilla sky FRONT PAGE NEWS - Kabul: Afghans in the water and their first lottery run by Afghan Red Crescent Society, Shomali village, Jammu, India, and Islamic "peace" Lebanon: Ain al-Hilweh, and the Hilton that never made it. Vanilla sky, Ted and Alcor BREAKING NEWS: Part 1 is here ============ AFGHANISTAN ================ In Kabul, Afghans are cooling off. In Kabul, Afghans had their first lottery run by Afghan Red Crescent Society, who scammed 100,000 tickets, for a car, bicycles, and a few televisions....