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| 2016 || brain preservation || organization || founding || Nectome || Nectome is started by Robert McIntyre after having won the {{W|Brain Preservation Foundation}}'s Large Mammal Prize. Nectome is a research organization developing biological preservation techniques to better preserve the physical traces of memory.<ref name="Nectome">{{Cite web|url=https://nectome.com/|title=Nectome|website=nectome.com|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
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| 2016 || brain preservation || technological development || || Nectome || Nectome wins 413,765 USD in research grants from the National Institutes of Health “to enable whole-brain nanoscale preservation and imaging, a vital step towards a deep understanding of the mind and of the brain’s diseases.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_details.cfm?aid=9255571&icde=38525280|title=Project Information - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results|website=projectreporter.nih.gov|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 2016-03-24 || cryonics || social || blog || Wait But Why || Tim Urban publishes "[https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html Why Cryonics Makes Sense]" on his blog "[https://waitbutwhy.com Wait But Why]". At the moment the article was published, 331,824 people were subscribed to receive new posts by email.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325000246/https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html|title=Why Cryonics Makes Sense - Wait But Why|date=2016-03-25|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2019-02-04}}</ref> Cryonicists almost unanimously acclaimed this post as the best introduction to cryonics.
