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Scientists in Germany have achieved something that has long been considered impossible: freezing a mammal's brain and restoring functional activity after thawing. The team used a technique called vitrification, which converts tissue into a glass-like state rather than allowing ice crystals to form. Ice crystals have always been the main obstacle to successful cryopreservation, as they expand and rupture the delicate structures inside cells.
The researchers, publishing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were able to thaw mouse brain tissue and observe restored neuronal firing and other key markers of brain function. Scientists outside the study called it a meaningful step forward, though they caution that freezing and reviving an entire large organ, let alone a whole mammal, remains far beyond current capabilities. Still, the findings take a concept long confined to science fiction just a little closer to being actually possible.
Source: Daily Mail