{"id":189668,"date":"2024-05-18T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/frozen-human-brain-tissue-works-perfectly-when-thawed-18-months-later"},"modified":"2024-05-18T13:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:23:18","slug":"frozen-human-brain-tissue-works-perfectly-when-thawed-18-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/frozen-human-brain-tissue-works-perfectly-when-thawed-18-months-later","title":{"rendered":"Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frozen-human-brain-tissue-works-perfectly-when-thawed-18-months-later2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In good news for future animation figureheads, there might be a new way to revive frozen brains without damaging them. Scientists in China have developed a new chemical concoction that lets brain tissue function again after being frozen.<\/p>\n<p>Freezing is effective at keeping organic material from decomposing, but it still causes damage. As the water inside turns to ice, the crystals tear apart the cells. That\u2019s why frozen meat or fruit goes a bit mushy after it\u2019s defrosted \u2013 but a bigger problem is that it also <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/medical\/organ-preservation-cryoprotectant-no-ice-damage\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">happens with organs<\/a> or tissues chilled for transplant or research.<\/p>\n<p>For the new study, scientists at Fudan University in China experimented with various chemical compounds to see which ones might work to preserve living brain tissue during freezing. They started by testing out promising chemicals on brain organoids \u2013 small, lab-grown lumps of brain tissue that develop into different types of related cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In good news for future animation figureheads, there might be a new way to revive frozen brains without damaging them. Scientists in China have developed a new chemical concoction that lets brain tissue function again after being frozen. Freezing is effective at keeping organic material from decomposing, but it still causes damage. As the water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}