{"id":3774,"date":"2015-04-17T18:24:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/memory-retention-in-c-elegans-demonstrated-following-cryropreservation\/"},"modified":"2015-05-10T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T18:27:17","slug":"memory-retention-in-c-elegans-demonstrated-following-cryropreservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.truthjuice.co.uk\/index.php\/memory-retention-in-c-elegans-demonstrated-following-cryropreservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Retention in C. Elegans Demonstrated Following Cryropreservation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CrawlingCelegans\"<\/p>\n

One of the greatest dreams of transhumanism is the idea of cryonics where a person presumed to be dead under current technologies, legally dead, is cryopreserved by a process of vitrification with the eventual goal of later revival and return to a normal life with their memories and personality intact. However, scientific evidence that the cryopreservation process could preserve memory\u00a0or\u00a0personal traits\u00a0was essentially non-existent.\u00a0Until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent publication in journal\u00a0Rejuvenation Research<\/a>\u00a0from Humanity+ chair Dr. Natasha Vita-More of the University of Advancing Technology<\/a>, Technology and\u00a0Mr. Daniel Barranco of the\u00a0University of Seville<\/a>, CryoBioTech Engineering School, Seville, Spain has\u00a0demonstrated that some long term memories can indeed be preserved in an animal model, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans<\/a> (C. elegans). This is certainly going to be one of the foundational papers demonstrating that the science of cryopreservation is real. I heard about this work a few months ago but wasn’t permitted to say anything\u00a0before publication.<\/p>\n

I have been sitting on my hands wanting to start writing\u00a0about this important result.<\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can memory be retained after cryopreservation? Our research has attempted to answer this long-standing question by using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a well-known model organism for biological research that has generated revolutionary findings but has not been tested for memory retention after cryopreservation. Our study\u2019s goal was to test C. elegans\u2019 memory recall after vitrification and reviving. Using a method of sensory imprinting in the young C. elegans we established that learning acquired through olfactory cues shapes the animal\u2019s behavior and the learning is retained at the adult stage after vitrification. Our research method included olfactory imprinting with the chemical benzaldehyde (C6H5CHO) for phase-sense olfactory imprinting at the L1 stage, the fast cooling SafeSpeed method for vitrification at the L2 stage, reviving, and a chemotaxis assay for testing memory retention of learning at the adult stage. Our results in testing memory retention after cryopreservation show that the mechanisms that regulate the odorant imprinting (a form of long-term memory) in C. elegans have not been modified by the process of vitrification or by slow freezing.<\/p>\n

Dr. Natasha Vita-More and Mr. Daniel Barranco. Rejuvenation Research. -Not available-, ahead of print. doi:10.1089\/rej.2014.1636.<\/p>\n

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Read the full paper available here as an e-publication:\u00a0http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1089\/rej.2014.1636<\/a><\/div>\n

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Animated\u00a0Worm image:\u00a0Bob Goldstein http:\/\/labs.bio.unc.edu\/Goldstein\/movies.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the greatest dreams of transhumanism is the idea of cryonics where a person presumed to be dead under current technologies, legally dead, is cryopreserved by a process of vitrification with the eventual goal of later revival and return to a normal life with their memories and personality intact. However, scientific evidence that the … <\/p>\n

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