Mouse brain slices brought back to life after being frozen for a week
In a step towards suspended animation of people, slices of mouse brains have shown near-normal activity after being stored at -150°C for up to a week
I wonder what it was thinking.
"That was cool"
Everyone is all impressed with the cryo part, and I'm more shocked that a sliced up brain can still function.
You should check out the studies on split brains in humans, where they had to basically separate the left and right hemispheres for medical reasons and the weird shit that the patient ends up experiencing. Or even how they have been able to make machines that run off bits of rat brain or just collections of lab grown neurons instead of computer chips.
Yeah, this stuff is wild, there was a little girl years ago who had a seizure disorder, and they removed one half of her brain, she somehow kept most functions and could walk but had some weakness in the limbs on the opposing side.
I just looked her up - holy shit look at how she is today!
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This is incredible.
Maybe anti-cryo people can finally shut it :-)
On a more serious note, this paves the way for cryopreserving organs and of course later on, our brain, mind & consciousnesses for a future thawing.
Edit: anti-cryo downvotes incoming!
Cryo works for animals and tissues up to a certain size. The problem is that once it’s a bit bigger than a guinea pig it gets a lot harder to reheat evenly which causes damage. Imagine if your skin and muscles were thawed but not your heart, for example.