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From: "Melody Maxim" <>
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Subject: Research
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:57:50 -0500

Ben Best wrote:

"I hope that the life-extension community
(including the cryonics community) can finish
funding the brain microglia regeneration/rejuvenation
project and follow this with successful funding
of the cryonics reperfusion injury project."

There are MANY MILLIONS of dollars being poured into medical research
related to microglia and reperfusion injury. If you google "microglia
regeneration," you get "about 132,000 results." Do the same for "microglia
rejuvenation," and you get >18,000 results. Google "reperfusion injury" and
you get "about 975,000 results." Some of this research has been going on, 
for decades.

A member of the cryonics community recently described some of the activities
as a "cargo cult," and I think that was probably an appropriate description.
While it might be worth paying someone $16,000 to "research the research,"
(do academic research), it seems foolish to attempt to tackle these issues
in a lab, with sums as low as $16,000. It reminds me some cryonics companies 
spending the bulk of their budgets on
building poor imitations of equipment that already exists.

Cryonics organizations don't seem to be able to deliver the procedures they 
sell with any degree of competency, even though those procedures and the 
equipment needed to perform them have existed for many decades. Why not 
invest in catching up to conventional medicine, in regard to those 
procedures, and in reviewing research being carried out by large, 
well-funded institutions?

Melody Maxim 

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