For the first time, researchers revived fully functional mouse brain tissue from cryopreservation. The secret sauce: ...

Before freezing, a process called vitrification is used to replace bodily fluids with cryoprotectants to prevent ice crystal formation, which could damage cells. Though the idea sounds like ...

Cryoprotectants are crucial when freezing biological material to lessen the cellular damage involved with the formation of ice. Ice re-crystallization, that is the process by which larger ice ...

It is around 120 microns, or about a tenth of a millimeter, in size so it is very conducive to freezing and using cryoprotectants. Cryoprotectants are basically antifreeze that we add to the ...

The molecules used in this process, known as "cryoprotectants," are crucial to enabling these treatments. In fact, without cryopreservation, such therapies must be deployed immediately ...

In a process called vitrification, researchers treated slices of mouse brains with cryoprotectants which protected ice crystals from forming and destroying the tissue When the slices of brain were ...

Cryoprotectants (CPAs) are a series of biomaterials developed to reduce cryoinjuries. To achieve the high efficiency of RBC cryopreservation, suitable CPAs should be added before freezing.

Cryogenic sleep pods in 'Passengers' would require non-toxic, rapid-acting cryoprotectants for vitrification. Unlike ice, glass contains no crystals that might fracture or stab the other contents ...

Cryoprotectants can prevent this ice damage, working like medical-grade antifreezes and preventing organs from freezing. This works in small worms and rabbit kidneys, but it needs to be ...

This effective novel cryoprotection mode could be used to develop new and more efficient cryoprotectants for the biosciences. Cryoprotectants prevent ice crystals from forming when samples are frozen.

Nature has evolved sugars, amino acids, and special antifreeze proteins as cryoprotectants. People use organic solvents and synthetic polymers as additives to prevent cell cultures from freezing ...