Put “Alien” on standby — because science may be inching a tiny step closer to real-life cryosleep.
In a breakthrough that sounds ripped straight from a Ridley Scott flick, researchers in Germany have managed to freeze brain tissue to ultra-cold temperatures and bring it back with key signs of life still flickering — including electrical activity linked to learning and memory.
The feat, detailed in a new study published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” suggests that one day scientists may be able to place brain tissue — or even entire organs — into a deep freeze and revive them later without wrecking the delicate circuitry that makes them tick, originally reported on by Nature.com.
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