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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

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] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So that’s what the three seashells are for!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's how they got NRS and UBT.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Perfectly?

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perfectly to what end? Is this a teaser for season two of "three body problem"?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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] 3 points 1 year ago

breathes sigh of relief

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It was a joke

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Feels like a business opportunity to me

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 7 points 1 year ago

This Demolition Man reboot sucks.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If only the rest of us did

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

this post was submitted on 18 May 2024
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