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An examination of ~ a 39,000 year old woolly mammoth brain preserved in the permafrost of Siberia shows good gross preservation, as well as similarities to elephant brains. Here’s the abstract: [...]

Executive Summary Brain Preservation Prize competitor Shawn Mikula just published his whole mouse brain electron microscopy protocol in Nature Methods (paper, BPF interview), putting him close to [...]

Here at the BPF we are interested in measuring the accuracy of a variety of possible techniques for brain preservation — including cryopreservation. The LessWrong forum has an annual survey, one [...]

Biography: Peter Gouras, M.D., Ph.D. h.c., is a Professor of Opthamology at Columbia University. He is a pioneer in the transplantation of retinal pigment epithelial cells and successfully [...]