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cryopreserve

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cry·o·pre·serve  (kr-pr-zûrv)
tr.v. cry·o·pre·served, cry·o·pre·serv·ing, cry·o·pre·serves
To preserve (cells or tissue, for example) by freezing at very low temperatures.

cryo·preser·vation (-przr-vshn) n.


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Sperm have been routinely frozen and thawed for decades, but now researchers can cryopreserve mouse sperm stem cells.
and President, Fertility Centers of Illinois, early results suggest that vitrification is the most effective way to cryopreserve eggs: "FCI routinely uses vitrification with great success for patients undergoing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures who have more embryos than are required for a fresh embryo transfer.
But with conventional techniques, they're approaching a dead end in their attempts to cryopreserve anything nearly as complex as an organ.
 
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