Re:Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life
by gwern on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:33PM
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> By the way, maintaining even a brain in cryostasis is expensive compared to such experiments.
Not really. You can maintain a brain in an LN2 tank for like $100 a year: LN2 is one of the cheapest fluids around. Very very few biology experiments come anywhere close to costs like that.
So it would likely be used on critical patients who have signed an extended organ donation pledge. Maybe. Likely some will object to any, even voluntary, form of experimentation with anyone's brain.
By the way, maintaining even a brain in cryostasis is expensive compared to such experiments.