LONGECITY

A team at 21st Century Medicine led by Robert McIntyre has won the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize, which carries an award of $26,735. The Small Mammalian Brain Preservation Prize was awarded after the determination that the protocol developed by Dr. McIntyre, termed Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation, was able to preserve an entire rabbit brain with well-preserved ultrastructure, including cell membranes, synapses, and intracellular structures such as synaptic vesicles.

Focus now shifts to the final Large Mammal phase of the contest which requires an intact pig brain to be preserved with similar fidelity in a manner that could be directly adapted to terminal patients in a hospital setting. The 21st Century Medicine team has recently submitted to the BPF such a preserved pig brain for official evaluation. Lead researcher Robert McIntyre has started Nectome to further develop this method.

http://www.brainpres...l-announcement/

Note that this procedure is not good for rewarming the brain to a functional state, only for scanning it for mind uploading.

 

 

Note that this procedure is not good for rewarming the brain to a functional state, only for scanning it for mind uploading.

Well that view is disappointing. I like to remain optimistic that we could do more with it at some point. It is a proof of concept and a nice show piece for cryonics though.

Yes, but since 21CM's bussiness model is based on organ transplantation, I'm sure they are also investigating reversible cryopreservation. Sadly, there isn't any prize for that, but anyway the possible market is big, so profits are guaranteed.

Actually, it's not completely disappointing. It's a step in the right direction and will allow us to show that we can rebuild from from vitrified remains. So it's proof of concept, proof that we can do it. But to sell someone a digital copy of themselves is charlatanism imo. 

Alcor position statement on this prize