cryopreservation

[krahy-oh-prez-er-vey-shuhn]

noun

1. the storage of blood or living tissues at extremely cold temperatures, often -196 degrees Celsius.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cryopreservation¹

1972; cryo- + preservation

Example Sentences

Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly revealed that although Mr Junmin lived alone for two years after the procedure, in 2020 he began dating again, despite his wife remaining in cryopreservation.

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No one has ever been successfully revived following cryopreservation, and scientists believe that preserving and reawakening the complete human body is still a remote possibility.

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Some years after also working on the wood frog in Ottawa, another Storey lab alumna, Rasha Al-Attar, now works at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine & Surgery, where she takes inspiration from nature to develop cryopreservation techniques for experimental model animals like zebrafish, or to preserve organs like human hearts.

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In 1976, Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute, a nonprofit that freezes both humans and pets in the hope of someday reviving them, and the cryopreservation movement was born.

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A research fellow at Melbourne’s Monash University, Zeleznikow-Johnston wrote the new book, "The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death," which makes the case that cryopreservation is possible and should be more widely available.

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