MIT cuts ties with '100 per cent fatal' brain-preserving firm Nectome

A controversial start-up that wants to upload people's minds on to the cloud to preserve them forever has lost a crucial backer. San Francisco-based Nectome has proposed a '100 per cent fatal' technique to embalm the brains of dying humans so that they can be revived at a later date. But this week, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that it plans to dropped a contract with the firm which some claim is'promoting euthanasia.' MIT said it was cutting off a subcontract that involved the university in Nectome's grant-funded research through MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden's lab. The prestigious institution claims the technology is in its infancy and there is no guarantee that they can recreate consciousness. In a damning U-turn on the controversial technology, MIT released a statement removing itself from any affiliation with Nectome.