cryopreservation: Quick Facts

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A lab technician wearing protective gloves and face shield lifts a rack of deep-frozen cells from a cryopreservation tank emitting vapor in a laboratory setting.

Diagram illustrating the process of bone marrow transplantation, showing how stem cells are collected from a donor's blood or bone marrow, separated and selected, cryopreserved, thawed, diluted, and then infused into a patient who has undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

How scientists deep-freeze and reanimate zebrafish embryos

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freezing Cryonics bioengineering food preservation human-factors engineering genetic engineering bionics antioxidant tissue engineering

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Ian Wilmut

British biologist