Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time
tzury
17 points
5 comments
March 11, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
august-
What does "activity" mean here exactly — are we talking about electrical signals, or something closer to functional neural circuits? Big difference for the cryonics crowd.
MarkusQ
Pretty cool. And we don't even need to tag it "In mice" because the headline says so up front. Thinking about it, that's almost as impressive as what the scientists did.
nephihaha
Walt Disney was right.* * That is a joke by the way, I know the rumour is untrue.