Frozen human brain tissue brought back to life in major breakthrough

Researchers in China have successfully frozen and thawed human brain tissue, after which it regained normal function.

They hope the new technique will improve ways of studying neurological conditions.

Usually, brain tissue doesn’t survive freezing and thawing – although that hasn’t stopped people paying to have either just their brains or their entire bodies cryogenically frozen in the hope of being reanimated in the future.

However, Dr Zhicheng Shao and his colleagues at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, have successfully developed a solution which can keep brain tissue alive while frozen.