{"id":234037,"date":"2026-03-25T03:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/major-leap-towards-reanimation-after-death-as-mammals-brain-preserved"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:28:14","slug":"major-leap-towards-reanimation-after-death-as-mammals-brain-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/major-leap-towards-reanimation-after-death-as-mammals-brain-preserved","title":{"rendered":"Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal\u2019s brain preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/major-leap-towards-reanimation-after-death-as-mammals-brain-preserved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An entire mammalian brain has been successfully preserved using a technique that will now be offered to people who are terminally ill. The intention is to preserve all the neural information thought necessary to one day reconstruct the mind of the person it once belonged to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would need to donate their brain and body for scientific research,\u201d says Borys Wr\u00f3bel at Nectome in Portland, Oregon, a research company focused on memory preservation. \u201cBut what we are offering, as a company, is for their body and brain to be kept, essentially indefinitely, in the hope that sometime, in the future, it would be possible to read out the information from the brain and reconstruct the person\u2026 to allow them to continue, in effect, with their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to preserving the minute architecture of the brain, timing is critical. Within minutes of blood no longer circulating, enzymes break down neurons and cells start digesting themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Samunella\/Science Photo Library<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A pig\u2019s brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place and minimal damage. Some believe the same could be done with the brains of people with a terminal illness, so their mind can be reconstructed and they can \u201ccontinue with their life\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An entire mammalian brain has been successfully preserved using a technique that will now be offered to people who are terminally ill. The intention is to preserve all the neural information thought necessary to one day reconstruct the mind of the person it once belonged to. \u201cThey would need to donate their brain and body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234037","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}