Category: Vitrification
- For the first time ever, scientists successfully freeze and thaw brain tissue without damage ()
This significant development could revolutionize brain research by allowing long-term storage of brain tissue samples. A groundbreaking study by a team at the National Children’s Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, Fudan University in China, has unveiled a method to freeze and thaw brain tissue without causing any damage. This significant development, published in the journal Cell […]
- Preserved Kidneys Rewarmed and Transplanted in Rats ()
For the first time in history, scientists have been able to freeze, preserve, rewarm, and transplant rat kidneys with a new method of organ cryopreservation. The rewarming problem Today, organ transplantation is severely limited by the fact that organs can only be preserved for a short time in near-freezing temperatures. Long-term cryopreservation of organs could […]
- FROZEN IN TIME ()
Scientists are learning how to cryopreserve living tissues, organs, and even whole organisms, then bring them back to life MINNEAPOLIS—The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one. Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a […]
- Nanowarming and ice-free cryopreservation of large sized, intact porcine articular cartilage ()
Peng Chen, Shangping Wang, Zhenzhen Chen, Pengling Ren, R. Glenn Hepfer, Elizabeth D. Greene, Lia H. Campbell, Kristi L. Helke, Xingju Nie, Jens H. Jensen, Cherice Hill, Yongren Wu, Kelvin G. M. Brockbank & Hai Yao Abstract Successful organ or tissue long-term preservation would revolutionize biomedicine. Cartilage cryopreservation enables prolonged shelf life of articular cartilage, […]
- Vitrification and nanowarming enable long-term organ cryopreservation and life-sustaining kidney transplantation in a rat model ()
Zonghu Han, Joseph Sushil Rao, Lakshya Gangwar, Bat-Erdene Namsrai, Jacqueline L. Pasek-Allen, Michael L. Etheridge, Susan M. Wolf, Timothy L. Pruett, John C. Bischof & Erik B. Finger Abstract Banking cryopreserved organs could transform transplantation into a planned procedure that more equitably reaches patients regardless of geographical and time constraints. Previous organ cryopreservation attempts have […]