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Cryogenics: Entire Rabbit Brain Successfully Frozen and Revived For First Time
natureworldnews ^ | Feb 11, 2016 05:59 PM EST | Samantha Mathewson

Posted on 02/11/2016 5:03:24 PM PST by BenLurkin

"Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near­ perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable," the Brain Preservation Foundation wrote in a news release.

The team, led by recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Robert McIntyre, filled the vascular system of the rabbit brain with chemicals that prevent decay and allow it to be cooled to -211 degrees Fahrenheit. When thawed, the brain was found to have all of its synapses, cell membranes, and intracellular structures intact.

"Every neuron and synapse looks beautifully preserved across the entire brain," Kenneth Hayworth, the Brain Preservation Foundation president, said in the release. "Simply amazing given that I held in my hand this very same brain when it was vitrified glassy solid ... This is not your father's cryonics."

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abbynormal; brain; frozen
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1 posted on 02/11/2016 5:03:24 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

It’s first words were “What’s up doc?”


2 posted on 02/11/2016 5:05:20 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I'll support Trump as a second choice, and I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again.)
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To: BenLurkin
When thawed, the brain was found to have all of its synapses, cell membranes, and intracellular structures intact.

It was still as dead as a rock though.

3 posted on 02/11/2016 5:05:39 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: BenLurkin

General Franco is still dead today, but showing some improvement.


4 posted on 02/11/2016 5:06:27 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: BenLurkin

After it was unfrozen, did it say, “What’s up, doc?”


5 posted on 02/11/2016 5:06:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Larry Lucido
Excellent!

6 posted on 02/11/2016 5:06:56 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Larry Lucido

GMTA


7 posted on 02/11/2016 5:07:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: BenLurkin

Very impressive. A big step to cryonic resusitation, or even long term storage of organs such as kidneys.

Even being able to store kidneys for a month, for replacement, would be an enormous step forward.


8 posted on 02/11/2016 5:08:27 PM PST by marktwain
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To: BenLurkin
"I'm baaaaack! Hey, did we ever solve the Jew problem?"
9 posted on 02/11/2016 5:09:06 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: BenLurkin
Oh, it was "alive" alright.


10 posted on 02/11/2016 5:09:06 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: BenLurkin
"Sometimes dead is better."

Jud Crandall - Pet Sematary

11 posted on 02/11/2016 5:10:24 PM PST by atomic_dog
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To: BenLurkin

Strictly speaking, it’s cryonics, not cryogenics.


12 posted on 02/11/2016 5:10:34 PM PST by Samwell Tarly
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To: BenLurkin

Which lucky politician gets the transplant?


13 posted on 02/11/2016 5:11:01 PM PST by x
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To: BenLurkin

No hope for kerry or the a##clown though


14 posted on 02/11/2016 5:11:18 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: nickcarraway

:-)


15 posted on 02/11/2016 5:12:46 PM PST by Larry Lucido (I'll support Trump as a second choice, and I'll get on my knees and pray we don't get fooled again.)
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To: BenLurkin

“Abby someone. Abby...Normal. I’m almost sure that was the name.”


16 posted on 02/11/2016 5:13:56 PM PST by twister881
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To: BenLurkin

Elmer Fudd said, “I don’t carrot all.”


17 posted on 02/11/2016 5:14:04 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: BenLurkin

OMG EVERYBODY RUN!!! ZOMBIE RABBIT IS HERE!!!!


18 posted on 02/11/2016 5:16:31 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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To: BenLurkin

if it works on rats and cockroaches,
the DNC will buy it!


19 posted on 02/11/2016 5:17:17 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: atomic_dog

yes.

i guess the next step is removing it and putting in another body.

like that psycho italian doctor is gonna try to do next year.

Frankenstein sounds better than Luigistien lol.


20 posted on 02/11/2016 5:17:24 PM PST by dp0622
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