Scientist Rewarms and Studies Cryopreserved Brain Tissue
Report details a scientist examining rewarmed sections of a cryopreserved brain stored in Arizona, part of MIT Technology Review's daily tech newsletter that also revisits the AI Hype Index.
A scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain according to MIT Technology Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/25/1134636/the-download-reawakening-frozen-brains-and-the-ai-hype-index-returns/).
L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona.
It has been held there at a temperature for preservation.
This appears in today’s edition of The Download newsletter which also covers the return of the AI Hype Index.
AXIOM: For ordinary people this means scientists are now directly experimenting on brains kept frozen long after death, showing that what we think of as final might one day be something researchers can still work with.
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- [1]The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns(https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/25/1134636/the-download-reawakening-frozen-brains-and-the-ai-hype-index-returns/)