The Future Loves You review: Could brain freezing cure all disease – indirectly?


Dr. Michael Perry checks on patients at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ, June 24, 2021. The business of cryopreservation -- storing bodies at deep freeze until well into the future -- got a whole lot more complicated during the coronavirus pandemic. (Jesse Rieser/The New York Times) / Redux / eyevine Please agree fees before use. SPECIAL RATES MAY APPLY. For further information please contact eyevine tel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709 e-mail: info@eyevine.com www.eyevine.com

Checking on patients at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona

Jesse Rieser/New York

The Future Loves You
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston (Penguin, 28 November)

Much of medicine today focuses on extending life by no more than several months. Drugs for cancer and Alzheimer’s disease that are touted for their effectiveness often do little more than give people a bit more time. What if we could send terminally ill people forward to be saved by the medicine of the future, asks Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston.

It is an interesting question, and one that Zeleznikow-Johnston, a neuroscientist, poses in his book, The Future Loves…



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Publish date : 2024-11-20 18:00:00

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