{"id":21873,"date":"2016-02-10T04:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/mammal-brain-successfully-returned-from-cryopreservation-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:11:49","slug":"mammal-brain-successfully-returned-from-cryopreservation-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/mammal-brain-successfully-returned-from-cryopreservation-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Mammal brain successfully returned from cryopreservation for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mammal-brain-successfully-returned-from-cryopreservation-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rabbit\u2019s brain has been successfully returned from long-term cryogenic storage, marking the first time a whole mammalian brain has been recovered in near-perfect condition.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a significant breakthrough in the field of cryonics and boosts the prospect of one day bringing frozen human brains back to life.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from 21st Century Medicine (21CM) used a new technique called Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation that filled the vascular system of the rabbit brain with chemicals that would allow it to be cooled to &minus;211 degrees Fahrenheit (&minus;135 degrees Celsius). When it was thawed, the cell membranes, synapses, and intracellular structures remained intact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rabbit-brain-first-mammal-brain-return-successfully-cryopreservation-424913?rx=us\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rabbit\u2019s brain has been successfully returned from long-term cryogenic storage, marking the first time a whole mammalian brain has been recovered in near-perfect condition. It marks a significant breakthrough in the field of cryonics and boosts the prospect of one day bringing frozen human brains back to life. Researchers from 21st Century Medicine (21CM) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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-21873","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\/21873","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68527,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21873\/revisions\/68527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}