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The Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Oklahoma

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Archaeologists Have Found Thousands of Intact Ancient Human Brains. Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out Why the Organs Don’t Always Rot
The brain is one of the first organs to begin decomposing after death. Yet archaeologists have discovered more than 4,400 preserved human brains around the world, some of which have remained intact for the last 12,000 years. In hundreds of cases, the brain was the only soft tissue left among otherwise skeletal remains.… If a human brain ends up in a wet, oxygen-starved environment, the processes that usually cause decay can have the opposite effect … Intriguingly, the chemical changes that seem to help proteins survive after death “closely mirror” those involved in brain aging and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, the researchers write. With that in mind, the new findings could have implications not just for archaeology, but also for medicine.…

h/t A♠ Tech News