X-Message-Number: 14180 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:08:24 -0600 From: Linda Chamberlain <> Subject: Special Announcement 26 July, 2000 Special Announcement BioTransport is Developing an Extraordinary New Program for Viable Cell Cryogenic Storage. This service will be made available exclusively to fully signed up Alcor Members at a substantial discount, prior to advertising to the public. More information regarding pricing and procedures will be available to Alcor Members by early September. The cells (human or animal) stored will be fully viable, able to grow in culture (make copies of themselves), both before and after cryogenic storage. This means that they should be suitable for therapeutic cloning in humans (growing organs), reproductive cloning of pets, diagnostic purposes such as genetic analysis, gene therapy applications and reanimation tissue engineering. After making this service available to Alcor Members, BioTransport will "open its doors" to the public. Service fees and quality levels will be highly competitive. BioTransport will also engage in a number of public service related programs funded by donations to Alcor, broadening its market and producing widespread public recognition of BioTransport's role in the cryotransport rescue of Alcor Members. That, in turn, should accelerate Alcor's membership growth. If you had been contemplating the storage of your cells for any of these purposes, we recommend that you not do so before seeing what BioTransport is about to offer. The higher reliability and quality BioTransport will provide, at very substantial discounts for Alcor Members, will more than make up for the short delay in your being able to take advantage of this service. Remember! If you received this flyer, you are already on the mailing list to receive more detailed information in September, about one month from now. Please do not call Alcor or BioTransport for more information, at this point. We already receive a growing number of calls about this type service and the load is difficult to handle. This message about what BioTransport will soon be offering you is the most up-to-date information that we can provide at this time. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14180