Cryopreservation and the Transplant Personality Phenomenon

Today, you’ll learn about a new method to cryopreserve parts of the brain for later use, the personality changes that happen after organ transplants, and how fungicides cause dangerous fungi to self-destruct. 

Cryopreservation 

• “Effective cryopreservation of human brain tissue and neural organoids.” by Weiwei Xue, et al. 2024.  
• “Brain organoids: Establishment and application.” by Hao Chen, et al. 2022.  

Personality Transplant 

• “Personality Changes Associated with Organ Transplants.” by Brian Carter, et al. 2024.  
• https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3943/5/1/2 
• “Does changing the heart mean changing personality? A retrospective inquiry on 47 heart transplant patients.” by B Bunzel, et al. 1992.  
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1299456/ 

Fungal Azoles 

• “Azoles activate type I and type II programmed cell death pathways in crop pathogenic fungi.” by Martin Schuster, et al. 2024.  
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48157-9 
• “Leaf Blotch Disease of Wheat - Septoria tritici Blotch, Stagonospora nodorum Blotch and Tan Spot.” by Jorge David Selgado & Pierce A. Paul. 2016.  
• https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/plpath-cer-07 

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