[ExI] The Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize Has Been Won

[Anders Sandberg]

Yup, this is great news.

As McIntyre says in the interview
http://gizmodo.com/brain-preservation-breakthrough-could-usher-in-a-new-er-1758022181?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow 

“glutaraldehyde [bought] us weeks and the cryoprotectant [bought] us 
centuries.”

Of course, this is only useful if you think all the relevant information 
is preserved in the fixation. Protein states and small molecule chemical 
information may be messed up.


On 2016-02-09 17:09, Giulio Prisco wrote:
> The Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize Has Been Won
>
> The Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF) announced that the Small 
> Mammal Brain Preservation Prize has officially been won. The 
> spectacular result achieved by 21st Century Medicine researchers 
> provides the first demonstration that near-perfect, long-term 
> structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable...
>
> http://turingchurch.com/2016/02/09/the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won/
>
>
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-- 
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

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