This is the first time that brain tissue has been cryogenically frozen and revived without damage. In a process called vitrification, researchers treated slices of mouse brains with cryoprotectants ...

Brown amyloid beta plaques are visible in the slide on the left, which contains a tissue sample of an untreated brain with Alzheimer's Disease. There are no plaques in the tissue sample on the right, ...

Elaine Bearer sits at a wraparound desk with several computers, notebooks, and laboratory supplies strewn about. A confocal microscope about the size of a desktop computer from the 1990s sits in front ...