Aurelia Song

When we returned the next day, we sliced each hemisphere into paper-thin slices and Andrew spun up his quantum random number generator.

7.

He used it to randomly select.

4.

Slices from each hemisphere for analysis.

We sent him home with an introduction to Barclay's electron microscopy core facilities, which immediately started the week-long process of prepping the tissue for imaging including staining, resin embedding, and slicing into 90-nanometer sections.

After examining the electron micrographs and consulting with several neuroscientists, Andrew determined that our preservation was excellent, that the brain was connectomicly traceable, and that both the cold and the hot slices were of near-identical preservation quality.

He recommended us for a $550,000 investment, which we've since received.

We'd like to present this data to you as well.

The overall dataset obtained from Berkeley was massive.

A single image from one of our samples is around 5 gigabytes and requires special software to view.

I've prepared two representative images using DeepZoom, here.

There's an image here.

There's an image here.

Heading.

What's next?

We'll be in the comments again for a few hours, ready to answer your questions.

Our sale is still available.

The next post, by popular demand, will be about how we can know whether preservation is good enough prior to actually restoring someone.

I'll see you in the comments.