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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15769515

Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

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[โ€“] paraphrand@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Perfectly?

I guess we understand more about the brain than I thought. ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just don't freeze people in prison as punishment, ok? I've seen how that goes. Before you know it, we've got Stallone knitting things.

[โ€“] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And did you see what happened to sex? And pooping? And burgers?

Hey everyone, this guy doesn't know how to use the 3 seashells!

[โ€“] thefartographer@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's how they got NRS and UBT.

[โ€“] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So are we going to turn dead peoples brains into wetware?

[โ€“] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Feels like a business opportunity to me

[โ€“] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Fallout explored this concept with Robobrains. They were more powerful / useful than the comparatively primitive computer systems of the time.

[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Very interesting result but it's sad reading about having a 9 month old baby's brain tissue being cut up into 2-3mm chunks. I didn't know that brain tissue extraction was used to treat seizures. With the retraction of some papers in China due to ethics of samples being taken from unwilling minority groups I was hoping to see a bit more about where the samples came from in the paper.

[โ€“] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

This Demolition Man reboot sucks.

[โ€“] UmeU@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Works so well that it is currently the republican front runner for the presidency badum boom

[โ€“] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Disney is dead. You'd have to freeze the brain with the chemical described in the paper protecting the tissue, otherwise tissues become mush when thawed.

[โ€“] Sneptaur@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

It was a joke

breathes sigh of relief

[โ€“] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Brain: "oof ouch owie ow"
Scientists: "works perfectly well!"