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This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain

MIT Tech Review AI·6 days ago

Scientists have rewarmed and studied pieces of a cryopreserved human brain belonging to researcher L. Stephen Coles, who had been stored at -146°C for over a decade. The story involves extracting and analyzing brain tissue from a deceased colleague, which falls into the eerie and unsettling category that doomscrolling readers expect - the intersection of AI research, human preservation, and scientific ethics around studying preserved human brains.

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