{"id":21836,"date":"2016-02-09T15:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:17","slug":"the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won","title":{"rendered":"The Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize Has Been Won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brain Preservation Foundation<\/a> (BPF) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/small-mammal-announcement\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize has officially been won. The spectacular result achieved by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21cm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Medicine<\/a> researchers provides the first demonstration that near-perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable.<\/p>\n<p>A team from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.21cm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">21st Century Medicine<\/a>, spearheaded by recent MIT graduate Robert McIntyre, has discovered a way to preserve the delicate neural circuits of an intact rabbit brain for very long-term storage using a combination of chemical fixation and cryogenic cooling. Proof of this accomplishment, and the full \u201cAldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation\u201d (ASC) protocol, was <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cryobiol.2015.09.003\" target=\"_blank\">recently published<\/a> in the journal <em>Cryobiology<\/em> and has been independently verified by the BPF through extensive electron microscopic examination conducted by the two official judges of the prize: BPF President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/team\/kenneth-hayworth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Hayworth<\/a> and Princeton neuroscience professor <a href=\"http:\/\/seunglab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Seung<\/a>, author of \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/connectomethebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Connectome: How the Brain\u2019s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are<\/a><\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery neuron and synapse looks beautifully preserved across the entire brain,\u201d said Hayworth. \u201cSimply amazing given that I held in my hand this very same brain when it was frozen solid\u2026 This is not your father\u2019s cryonics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/turingchurch.com\/2016\/02\/09\/the-small-mammal-brain-preservation-prize-has-been-won\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. A team from 21st Century Medicine, spearheaded by recent MIT graduate Robert McIntyre, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68538,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/68538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}