Not quite suspended animation but still an interesting survival story. Scientists in France have found intact braincells within an 800 year old petrified brain. Here’s the breakdown:
he brain is so well preserved that the researchers were able to perform far more tests on it than were possible with similar specimens found previously. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed the gross anatomical features of the organ, clearly showing the central sulcus, which separates the frontal and parietal lobes, and the corpus callosum, the huge bundle of nerve fibres connecting the left and right hemispheres. The grey and white matter, which are made up respectively of cell bodies and axon bundles enveloped in fatty insulating tissue, could easily be distinguished from one another.
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