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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later (newatlas.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Perfectly?

I guess we understand more about the brain than I thought. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sex-pooping??? Yowza!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That's how they got NRS and UBT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Feels like a business opportunity to me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This Demolition Man reboot sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Disney must be excited

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

breathes sigh of relief

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It was a joke