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

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Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later

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[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Disney must be excited

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 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.

[–] Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago

breathes sigh of relief

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

It was a joke

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

Feels like a business opportunity to me

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 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.

[–] GammaGames 5 points 6 months ago

If only the rest of us did