{"id":1041841,"date":"2011-06-26T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/longevity-medicine\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:52:05","slug":"the-brain-preservation-technology-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize.php","title":{"rendered":"The Brain Preservation Technology Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcor.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/07\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize\" \/>Cryonics Magazine<\/a>: &#8220;As a neuroscientist whose day job is to map neural circuits, I know exactly what type of evidence is needed to convince the scientific community that cryonics preserves the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neural_circuit\">neural circuits<\/a> encoding our unique memories and personality. What is required is a systematic whole-brain survey with an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electron_microscope\">electron microscope<\/a>. Recently I, along with my colleagues John Smart and Jacob DiMare, formed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\">Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF)<\/a> to promote new scientific research in the field of whole brain preservation for long-term static storage. The BPF has announced the Brain Preservation Technology Prize (purse currently at $106,000) for the first team to demonstrate that an entire large mammalian brain can be preserved for long-term storage such that the connectivity between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuron\">neurons<\/a> remains intact and traceable using today&#8217;s electron microscopic imaging techniques. A complete set of rules for the prize can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpreservation.org\">our BPF website<\/a>. &#8230; This prize is being presented as a challenge to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2001\/11\/cryonics.php\">cryonics<\/a> providers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcor.org\">Alcor<\/a> and their research partners: &#8216;Demonstrate the quality of your product in a rigorous, independent, and open way to the scientific community and to your customers.&#8217; The BPF is hard at work raising funds to promote this prize and to help perform the electron microscopic evaluation required, and we are recruiting a board of scientific advisors and judges that will give the prize credibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcor.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/07\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize\/\">http:\/\/www.alcor.org\/magazine\/2011\/06\/07\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cryonics Magazine: &#8220;As a neuroscientist whose day job is to map neural circuits, I know exactly what type of evidence is needed to convince the scientific community that cryonics preserves the neural circuits encoding our unique memories and personality. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/the-brain-preservation-technology-prize.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}