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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.
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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.

cryopreservation: References & Edit History

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  • David H. Yawn
    Professor of pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Links added. Jun 17, 2024
New media added. Jun 01, 2020
Added information on the use of cryopreservation to freeze and store human embryos for frozen embryo transfer. Dec 17, 2019
Added image of a technician withdrawing frozen cells from storage. Apr 01, 2010
Updated to include information about the freezing of whole animals. Nov 05, 2008
Article thoroughly revised. Jul 24, 2008
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