I wonder what it was thinking.
Mouse brain slices brought back to life after being frozen for a week
Submitted 2 months ago by TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works to science@mander.xyz
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Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The size of things we can cryopreserve and thaw is growing bigger every year, hence the importance of the article.
Soon we will be able to cryopreserve a human kidney, then a liver and so on.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
What a novel sentence
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Everyone is all impressed with the cryo part, and I’m more shocked that a sliced up brain can still function.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
You should check out the studies on split brains in humans, where they had to basically separate the left and right hemisphere’s for medical reasons and the weird shit that the patient ends up experiencing.
indomara@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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!
npr.org/…/neuroplasticity-plasticity-glass-half-f…