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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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Whereas freezing of tissue samples results in damaging ice formation within cells and in the surrounding extracellular matrix, vitrification cryopreserves tissues without ice crystal formation.
In this role the Laboratory continually develops, imports, breeds, characterizes, cryopreserves and supplies the world's broadest offering of unique specialty strains, called JAX(R) GEMM(TM) Strains.
NASDAQ: KOOL) announced today that its BioArchive(tm) System, which harvests and cryopreserves units of placental blood stem cells used to reconstitute the bone marrow of patients with leukemia, lymphomas and other genetic blood diseases, will be installed in the Guandong Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy Center, Guangzhou, China.
 
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