MIT cuts ties with brain preservation startup Nectome

MITis disassociating itself from Nectome, the Y Combinator-backed startup promising to preserve customers’ brains for the possibility of future digital upload.
Co-founder Robert McIntyre described the procedure as “100 percent fatal” — it involves connecting terminally ill patients to a machine that pumps embalming fluids into their arteries.
The company has collected (refundable) $10,000 payments for a wait list, but its website now carries a note in “Response to r