Definition of cryopreservation
: preservation (as of cells) by subjection to extremely low temperatures
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Sometime during the weekend of March 3, 2018, the cryopreservation tank at University Hospitals suddenly failed.
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The cryopreservation process frees this germplasm of pathogens and buys the material an estimated couple-thousand years of viability.
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Many clinics still use older cryopreservation tanks that must be filled with liquid nitrogen by hand, and there is no standard set-up for alarms.
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Before freezing methods were refined, fresh embryos were the only option, but as cryopreservation techniques improved, freezing embryos so that not all of the healthiest ones had to be transferred to the woman immediately became more popular.
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Still, developing cryopreservation techniques that work on reef species has proved tricky.
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But there, tucked among other marine biology offices on the 28-acre Coconut Island in Hawaii’s Kāneʻohe Bay, Hagedorn and colleagues are working on a science-fiction solution: cryopreservation.
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Right now, cryopreservation is tough, for the same reason that previously frozen meat doesn't taste as good as fresh stuff: Ice crystals.
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