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I've pretty much given up on forming any sort of "community". For a while, it seemed like a good idea. Having lots of people around might allow us to get more done. These people might help build things or volunteer during cases. Unfortunately, that vision of community now seems unworkable ...

The article in Quartz https://qz.com/914490/theres-a-completely-legal-reason-this-american-dentist-has-an-office-full-of-human-heads/ discusses the AATB, but it leaves out some of the nuances. The AATB started out strictly to regulate the industry that handles tissue for transplantation into living ...

This article came out today: https://qz.com/914490/theres-a-completely-legal-reason-this-american-dentist-has-an-office-full-of-human-heads/ Overall, I found it well researched and well written. The title is slightly inaccurate for the presumed purpose of baiting people into clicking on it. That's f...

No. Please quit posting "brainstorming" suggestions. Maybe just quit posting at all.

Home page has now been updated to reflect that preservation quality is currently unvalidated and not very good for all cryonics providers. Once we have even just a little bit of evidence of decent preservation, we will be more interested in membership issues.

We hope that our cost of cryopreservation is low enough to be affordable. If not, we are continuing to work on less expensive options. Good perfusion will be a requirement for both standard cryopreservation and for any cheaper options. We still haven't demonstrated acceptable preservation quality wi...

Cracking happens during cooling and would be noticed immediately without waiting. So this procedure completely avoids cracking. We think, although there is still some uncertainty, that all current cryonics patients so far have undergone cracking. This includes the Alcor patients stored in Intermedia...

The TV interview went fine except for one problem: they decided to zoom in on the dewar lid that needed paint. I was mortified, but had no control. Needless to say, I'm painting lids today.

I changed the name of your post from "a new cryoprotectant" to "Aldehyde Stabilized Cryopreservation". Yes, it's very exciting, and clearly has profound implications for all cryonics service providers. My main hesitation is that it was an ideal scenario, and no experiments have b...

The third patient has arrived and is in refrigerated storage. We are beginning the months-long cryoprotectant ramp in preparation for storage in LN2.
http://www.oregoncryo.com/caseReport3.html

I see in this article http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d634e198-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html that Kriorus is "moving to a new 3,300 square metre facility", which is 35,521 sf. They would only need 5,000 to 10,000 sf, so this is too big. It doesn't make sense until you notice that they are tal...

Are you aware that, no matter which company you sign up with, your service will be very poor in Canada?
http://www.oregoncryo.com/canada.html

Thanks. Both links were old. I edited the original message to just show the one current link.

You can always see how many patients we have by going to the Case Reports page at the bottom of the About OC page. 2 patients, and one more arriving shortly. As for members, we have been sort of discouraging people from signing up unless they are local or have no other options. We would rather get o...

OK, the new phone number is live and posted. 1-800-CRYO-334 (279-6334). You can call it, but just don't hit 0 to get to operator unless you mean it.

Mark seems to be quite insistent about this, so I'll cave. I'll start working on getting manned posted emergency numbers.

Our fees have been raised. This allows us to put the same level of funding into our Patient Care Fund as Alcor does into their PCT. But since we only store the brain, our overall fees are still able to be lower. http://www.oregoncryo.com/services.html We are now also recommending refrigeration for t...

We've been asked why our phone number isn't prominently posted on our website. It's because we're still in startup phase. We do have some customers and some members, but they tend to be postmortem or else local and low risk. Also, it will take a number of days to set up the Asterisk phone server to ...

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