1. Live Births From Vitrified and Replanted Whole Ovaries in Large Mammals ($350,000)
Principal researchers: Dr. Bradley Weegman, Dr. Alison Ting, and Dr. Sebastian Eriksson Giwa
This project aims to achieve the world’s first live births from vitrified and replanted whole sheep ovaries, thereby demonstrating the feasibility of restoring fully functional organs from ultra-low-temperature storage.
Rick says- that's fine, but the human-mind is not an ovary. The mind is no longer thought of as being in the brain. Drexler's statement "personality and memory are embedded in preservable brain structure" turns out to be not true although radical materialists will still insist it is in 2025.
2. Neuroscience of Learning and Memory Study for Brain Preservation ($10,000)
Principal researchers: Andy McKenzie and Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
This study aims to determine whether neuroscientists agree on a specific “critical scale” in the brain at which long-term memories are physically stored, building on evidence that stable neurophysiological structures underpin memory retention. Researchers will survey memory experts about which structural mechanisms—such as synaptic ensembles or molecular changes—they believe account for long-term memory, and whether these mechanisms could theoretically allow memory extraction from a perfectly preserved brain. By gathering expert opinions, the authors hope to clarify if there is a true consensus regarding the physical basis of long-term memory storage. With support from CryoDAO, they plan to publish their findings in a peer-reviewed journal or white paper.
Rick says- The "critical scale" is quantum. Cryonics cannot work at that scale.
3. HydraDAO is a DAO that aims to radically extend human lifespan through tissue engineering approaches to bypass the problem of aging without needing to fully (nor even partially) understand it. This new paradigm emphasizes creating and replacing biological parts, from organs to entire bodies, rather than relying on fundamental discoveries in aging biology such as cellular reprogramming or gene therapy. Proposed methods include whole-body replacement via cloned or synthetic embryos with no neocortex (no brain) for head or brain transplants. The initiative also envisions progressive brain replacement using stem cell-based tissue engineering. Ultimately, HydraDAO’s goal is to enable total replacement of aged body parts with younger lab-grown equivalents.
Rick says [The body replaces it’s own cells every 90 days anyway so the key is to lengthen the telomeres.]
4. Whole body cloning and replacement to solve aging sound like science fiction, but recent advances in primate cloning have made it theoretically possible. Healthy primate clones of long-tailed macaques were created just seven years ago. [12] Mammalian genomes can be edited to prevent neocortex (brain) formation in vitro; this technology was recently demonstrated in mice [13].
Rick says- Cryonics millionnaires who left their fortunes in perpetual trusts already did not have neocortex. That's why they left their money in "dead hand trusts". [joke]
5. Regrowing limbs with bioelectric signals? Once again, perhaps science fiction can become scientific fact. HydraDAO is also interested in supporting the bioelectric approach to limb regrowth or regeneration. This approach to solving aging has been pursued for decades by Michael Levin, a developmental biologist at Tufts University [15]. Levin’s research demonstrates how bioelectrical signals can reprogram organisms to grow, heal, and even regenerate entirely new limbs. In one striking experiment, he altered a planarian worm’s electrical pattern so that it consistently regrew its head, illustrating how cells “remember” what shape they’re supposed to form [15]. [Rick says - Edward L. Russell proposed L-fields, based on Harold S. Burr’s work from 1935 to 1960’s] Levin views bioelectricity as a code that cells use to communicate and make decisions, suggesting that mastering this code could enable limb regeneration, organ repair, and other transformative therapies. [Ricks says - It’s not bioelectricity but it IS L-field which is electromagnetic mesh or matrix projected from the quantum aether where the design of life forms occurs.]
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