Forget the Full-Body Freeze. The Next Big Trend in Longevity Tech Is ‘Brain-Only’ Preservation

Brain-only cryopreservation is rising in popularity as a faster, cheaper alternative to full-body vitrification. Will it work?

Cryonics, the low-temperature preservation of legally dead humans, certainly isn’t new—popular culture has been fantasizing about being frozen alive since before Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1968 Planet of the Apes. But now a new trend is causing some controversy: what will happen if you just freeze your brain and not your body?

Cryonics is a theoretical life preservation technology........

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