X-Message-Number: 32498 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:18:40 -0700 Subject: on the "delicate and fleeting nature" of synapses From: Jeff Davis <> "The almost perfectly preserved brain of a medieval toddler who died 800 years ago..." "...was exhumed in 1998 and after more than a decade of research scientists have now identified neurons and cerebral cells that are still intact. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7464185/Medieval-childs-brain-to-unlock-human-thought-processes.html Best, Jeff Davis "Death is really just an engineering problem." Regina Pancake Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32498