If you have ever used Excel to review a large database, you know how useful it is to be able to freeze cells, such as the top row or the first column. It’s so handy because these two places are where ...

Many types of cells have to be able to move around, such as during the development of the body, or when immune cells have to reach the site of an infection or injury. To do so, cells may employ ...

Climate change is threatening many species with extinction, so we owe it to them to try to help. Japanese scientists have now successfully cloned mice from freeze-dried adult cells, which can be ...

Microscopes have long served as windows into the hidden world of cells, revealing their shape, activity, and chemistry. Yet watching life at this scale has always involved trade-offs. To capture the ...

As species continue to face massive extinction, preserving genetic material through judicious biobanking to enable cloning is key to promoting the survival of species and maintaining biodiversity.

BOTHELL, Wash., Sept. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLFS), the leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade cell and tissue hypothermic ...

Researchers have used a common molecular model, the fruit fly, to learn more about why we suddenly freeze when we're startled. This phenomenon has been observed in almost every animal where ...

BioCision LLC, the CoolPrep™ company, announced today that it has expanded its line of innovative benchtop sample handling tools with the launch of the CryoPrep System™, a modular complete solution ...

Cell freezing (cryopreservation) -- which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research -- can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant which reduces the ...

Researchers are running hot and cold on cancer treatment. New studies suggest that freezing tumors -- and in other cases heating them -- could mean quicker and less invasive treatment for some cancer ...