How to Use cryopreservation in a Sentence

cryopreservation

noun

• Right now, cryopreservation is tough, for the same reason that previously frozen meat doesn't taste as good as fresh stuff: Ice crystals.
  — Neel Patel, Wired News, 5 June 2015
• Under the agreement, the process known as cryopreservation would be performed in a lab, and the frozen embryos would be transferred to a storage facility.
  — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2022
• The Chinese performed their first cryopreservation in 2017, and Yinfeng’s storage vats hold only a dozen clients.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• 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.
  — chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• And for those choosing to delay having children, the company is paying for egg and sperm cryopreservation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• The waiting list for Tomorrow Biostasis, a cryopreservation startup based in Germany, is in the hundreds.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
• The Florida Aquarium, in Apollo Beach, reached a milestone in its mission to restore the coral reefs, thanks to crossbreeding and cryopreservation.
  — Star Tribune, 17 July 2021
• At age 35, Sun underwent oocyte cryopreservation, or egg freezing, yielding three to four eggs each cycle.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022
• Whereas the goal with IVF is to produce an embryo that will then be implanted in a patient’s body, oocyte cryopreservation banks unfertilized eggs for later use.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• The tissue was then placed in liquid nitrogen, commonly used in cryopreservation, for long-term storage.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016
• Still, developing cryopreservation techniques that work on reef species has proved tricky.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2017
• John Caniglia reports that Dr. Andrew Bhatnager wrote in an affidavit that employees failed to properly maintain the cryopreservation tank where the eggs and embryos were stored.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 5 Apr. 2021
• Coral cryopreservation is difficult in part because freezing and thawing wreak havoc on cells.
  — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
• To help her cryopreservation methods spread, Hagedorn runs workshops and shares her techniques freely; the instructions to build her equipment can be downloaded and then manufactured with a 3D printer.
  — Alex Riley, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
• But for those that participate, the cryopreservation process begins as soon as a person is declared legally dead, according to Alcor’s website.
  — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• In Lima, the focus is cryopreservation — preserving the DNA of a species in case it’s wiped out, possibly by a doomsday situation — specifically of potatoes.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 13 July 2020
• Shortly after he was diagnosed with the fatal disease, TJ underwent a cryopreservation procedure to freeze his sperm.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
• The cryopreservation process frees this germplasm of pathogens and buys the material an estimated couple-thousand years of viability.
  — Sena Christian, Newsweek, 19 Nov. 2015
• Developed in the 1960s to store livestock semen for breeding, the cryopreservation containers aren’t regulated any better than kitchen appliances or farm tools.
  — Dov Fox, Vox, 3 July 2019
• The procedure, known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, has helped many people potentially expand their timeline for having kids.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 15 May 2021
• Known as cryopreservation, this step will be vital to protect the viability of tissues from human boys for future fertility.
  — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• An article last Sunday about the cryonics industry misspelled the name of a Russian cryopreservation company.
  — New York Times, 3 July 2021
• As for research into cryopreservation of larger organisms, the authors suggest that this becomes trickier as the organism in question becomes more complex.
  — Wired, 27 June 2021
• The products could also prove useful in the cryopreservation of biological cells, tissues, and organs, which are susceptible to ice-crystal formation.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2022
• Hagedorn and her collaborators previously pioneered the cryopreservation of coral sperm, with techniques similar to those used in human sperm banks.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• The strongest reason for believing China will come to dominate the field is not just its population of 1.4 billion people but its domestic attitude toward cryopreservation.
  — New York Times, 26 June 2021
• Williams' cryopreservation attracted extensive media attention after a former Alcor employee wrote a tell-all book, saying Williams' head had been mistreated in the Alcor lab.
  — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 17 May 2019
• 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.
  — Alice Park, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• A few years later, scientists developed reliable cryopreservation methods, setting the stage for commercial sperm banks.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 30 July 2020
• In fact, protective mechanisms against this are highly sought after by anyone in the business of cryopreservation, making this latest finding especially enticing from that perspective.
  — Wired, 27 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024