{"id":176152,"date":"2025-09-23T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176152\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T11:17:11","slug":"can-chinas-new-tech-crack-einsteins-brain-scientists-hope-to-give-it-a-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176152\/","title":{"rendered":"Can China\u2019s new tech crack Einstein\u2019s brain? Scientists hope to give it a try"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could the secrets of Albert Einstein\u2019s brain<\/a> \u2013 preserved since his death in 1955 \u2013 be unlocked by modern Chinese technology?<\/p>\n

A new technique developed by Chinese scientists has shown potential in analysing old biological samples, including cancer tissues stored for nearly 10 years under less than ideal conditions.<\/p>\n

While cautious about the challenges posed by ageing preservation methods, the team behind the advanced RNA-mapping technology known as Stereo-seq V2 does not rule out the possibility of one day studying Einstein\u2019s brain to explore the cellular basis of genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are fortunate enough to analyse Einstein\u2019s brain, we could give it a try,\u201d co-corresponding author Li Yang, a research associate at BGI-Research, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the challenges are significant because the preservation techniques at that time may not have been very good. It is hard to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Old samples were previously difficult to study due to possible chemical damage from the preservation method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Could the secrets of Albert Einstein\u2019s brain \u2013 preserved since his death in 1955 \u2013 be unlocked by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15302,104982,21871,8192,1155,104975,104983,104977,104974,104976,10644,79,4633,104978,104979,104981,104980],"class_list":["post-176152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-albert-einstein","tag-bgi-research","tag-cell","tag-chinese","tag-dna","tag-einsteins-brain","tag-ffpe","tag-li-yang","tag-liao-sha","tag-national-institute-of-pathogen-biology-in-beijing","tag-rna","tag-science","tag-shanghai","tag-state-key-laboratory-of-genome-and-multi-omics-technologies","tag-stereo-seq-v2","tag-stomics","tag-tongji-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}