{"id":97812,"date":"2019-10-25T02:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement"},"modified":"2019-10-25T02:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T09:03:13","slug":"large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement","title":{"rendered":"Large Mammal BPF Prize Winning Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A technology designed to preserve synapses across the whole brain of a large mammal is successful<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Using a combination of ultrafast glutaraldehyde fixation and very low temperature storage, researchers have demonstrated for the first-time ever a way to preserve a brain\u2019s connectome (the 150 trillion synaptic connections presumed to encode all of a person\u2019s knowledge) for centuries-long storage in a large mammal. This laboratory demonstration clears the way to develop Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation into a \u2018last resort\u2019 medical option, one that would prevent the destruction of the patient\u2019s unique connectome, offering at least some hope for future revival via mind uploading. You can view images and videos demonstrating the quality of the preservation method for yourself at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/aldehyde-stabilized-cryopreserved-pig-brain-evaluation-images\/\">the evaluation page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/aldehyde-stabilized-cryopreserved-pig-brain-evaluation-images\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/large-mammal-bpf-prize-winning-announcement.png 532w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-32x32.png 32w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-128x128.png 128w, https:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/asc_pig_prize-60x60.png 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px)  100vw, 532px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technology designed to preserve synapses across the whole brain of a large mammal is successful Using a combination of ultrafast glutaraldehyde fixation and very low temperature storage, researchers have demonstrated for the first-time ever a way to preserve a brain\u2019s connectome (the 150 trillion synaptic connections presumed to encode all of a person\u2019s knowledge) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"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-97812","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\/97812","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}