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 ...

Cryopreservation is a crucial process for ensuring the long-term viability and genetic integrity of animal cell cultures. Inconsistent freezing methods and contamination risks can undermine ...

Forever Labs aims to cure or prevent age-related diseases by replacing the loss of bone stem cells. Forever Labs When Mark Katakowski turned 40, three years ago, he was hit by the sudden jolt of a ...

In order to preserve biological materials over an extended period of time, doctors rely on a process known as cryopreservation – a procedure that involves cooling human tissues to sub-zero ...

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 ...

Nature has evolved sugars, amino acids, and special antifreeze proteins as cryoprotectants. People use organic solvents and synthetic polymers as additives to prevent cell cultures from freezing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates among cancers. Patients can expect as low as a 9% chance to live for at least five years after being diagnosed. Going back ...

Berkeley - The answer to improving the effectiveness of certain cancer treatments may be in stopping the malignant cells cold. Two researchers from the Institut Gustave-Roussy in France and the ...

The freezing characteristics and development of cell tension during extracellular freezing were examined in supercooling stem tissues of riverbank grapes (Vitis riparia) and cold-hardened leaves of ...