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Briefing
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- Nectome – Y Combinator-backed startup that promises to preserve brain with high technology embalming process for future uploading on cloud
- Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation (ASC) – Nectome’s embalming process entails pumping embalming fluids in arteries of patient while still alive, with brain surgically extracted and stored to cool down at temperatures of -135 degrees Celsius (-211 degrees Farenheit)
- 100% Fatal – Described as “100% fatal,” killing patient in process
- Potential Customers Waitlist – Has already 25 people on waitlist paying $10,000 each for procedure when technology is ready, with refund available if customers change their mind
- Technique Demonstration – Preserved woman’s brain 2.5 hours after death to demonstrate ASC technique
- Award Recipient – Awarded with $80,000 prize from Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF) for preserving pig’s brain with synapses intact
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Healthcare/Health Sciences
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Organization
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Nectome
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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March 13, 2018
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