CRYONICS / The movement to store bodies in deep freeze is feeling the heat of discord and financial problems, placing the industry ON THIN ICE By David Lazarus , Chronicle Staff Writer Aug 12, 2001 ...

But that was then, and this is now. The science of cryonics has evolved much in the last half century, and together with visions of nanomedicine, immortality research, mind-uploading, AI ...

“Cryonics,” Robin says, “has the problem of looking like you’re buying a one-way ticket to a foreign land.” To spend a family fortune in the quest to defeat cancer is not taken, ...

The Cryonics Institute, for instance, holds 206 bodies while Alcor has 182 bodies or neuros of people aged 2 to 101. KrioRus has 80, and there are a handful of others held by smaller operations.

While cryonics has the veneer of science -- high-tech operating rooms, research papers on vitrified organs -- the evidence available tells me reversible cryonic preservation is a long, long way off.

A German cryonics start-up is offering a chance at a second life for the cost of a sports car. Is cryogenics within reach, or still an empty promise? The ambulance parked up by a green in central ...

Human cryogenics, often referred to as cryonics, is the process of preserving the human body at ultra-low temperatures after legal death, with the hope of future revival. The concept is based on ...

Such is the breathtaking pace of modern scientific advancement that in the three short years since the technicians at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation famously severed baseball star Ted ...

Cryonics involves preserving human bodies at ultra-low temperatures in the anticipation that future science will one day revive them. Proponents and skeptics weigh in.

Enter cryonics, in which entire people are frozen immediately after death with the idea of defrosting them later when a cure for whatever ailed them has been found.

Also: Cryonics trusts have yet to be tested in court. For the typical cryonaut, House recommends an “accumulation trust” funded by life insurance—the trust assets grow as the grantor chills.

Dr. Kendziorra is a trained medical doctor-turned-cryonics evangelist. As a former cancer researcher, he was frustrated by the agonizingly slow pace of progress and “never found it acceptable to ...