Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Alcor is the world’s leader in cryopreservation research. Established in 1972, we are a non-profit scientific research foundation based in Scottsdale, AZ.

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The donation portal is available on the Linktree in our bio.

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Meet the calorimeter!

Wonjin is standing next to a differential scanning calorimeter, a nifty tool in cryobiology. It measures how heat moves in and out of a sample.

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The calorimeter is already in the lab and the team is putting it to work- but there’s still an open chapter on offsetting its funding. An up to $25,000 matching donation campaign is still active, so donating today will double the impact of your gift.

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From the Alcor Archives:

In a recent post we highlighted our newest super dewar. For contrast here’s a throwback to the Alcor dewars on this day in 1995.

Do you remember these?

[Daniel Hines @danhines09]

I’m trying to cultivate a particular aesthetic in my kid. Given her Alcor Cryonics dollhouse, I’d say it’s going pretty well.

[louis030195 | screenpipe (YC S26) @louis030195]

freeze your head to save your ass @stedmanhalliday x @AlcorCryonics 😎

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Plenty came between them over the years, but seeing the two together shows just how far the technology has come.

Alongside being more economical to manufacture, it sports a redesigned structure that offers better vacuum performance. 🦾

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Say hello to the newest, largest, and most advanced super-dewar in Alcor’s fleet. It is pictured here towering over one of our earliest historical dewars, now long retired.

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Dinner gave way to an epic living room roundtable, the kind of spirited conversation you can't have over email - engaging enough to keep us all there until very late.

Thank you to our host and everyone who came out. 🙏

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Wonderful evening with our Northern California members - good food, good company, and a view from the hills that's hard to beat.

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Dear Members and Friends,

Mike Perry's memorial takes place this Saturday, June 6, beginning at 1:00 PM (Arizona time). For those joining us virtually, here is everything you need to know.

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@UCSD please email me your mailing address.

Sincerely,

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If it looks like we set up shop in the woods, we get it.🌲 We were actually tabling at the beautiful @UCSD, connecting with students and career center staff to share Alcor's mission, internship opportunities, and the science of cryonics. 🏫

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The catch? Photographing each slice by hand was a bottleneck. So Mohammed modeled and 3D-printed a custom iPhone mount to streamline the process. 📲

Never a dull moment when you've got this level of versatility on the team.

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Behind The Scenes:

Wonjin using a repurposed machine learning model (built by Mohammed) to calculate the area of brain slices by pixel density. Pretty cool, right? 🧠

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@AlexanderW57309 Hello Alexander,

Our Cooldown unit is a Dewar, we still have the box as backup.  

It takes approximately 3-4 days to cool down a whole-body patient, depending on their size.

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Today, Steve and Jacob, core members of our engineering team, give us a sneak peak at their newest cooldown controller system.⚙️

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@AlexanderW57309 Cooldown box!

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When the body is cooled for preservation, we need precise control over liquid nitrogen levels. With this new system, procedure runs off a module just an eighth of the size of the original!