The vast and chilly room buzzes with the whirl of 10 cooling fans and 62 giant freezers, machines so high tech they can send text messages to warn of intruders or when their temperature drops much below minus-112 degrees.
Cameras scan this repository at the University of Colorado medical campus, protecting the valuables frozen inside: pieces of prostate cancer, fetal stem cells and slices of human brain damaged by multiple sclerosis.
"It's like walking into the twilight zone for me," said Karen Wenzel, executive director of the Rocky Mountain MS Center.
With the recent relocation of the center's brain bank, CU becomes home to the largest MS-exclusive collection of human brains in North America for the purpose of finding the cause and cure of the neurological disease.
The bank has about 350 brain slices and eventually, with additional freezers, will have the capacity to store thousands at its new state-of-the-art digs.
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