Cryopreservation is crucial to fields including immune and stem cell therapies, reproductive
technology, blood banking, regenerative medicine and across all biotechnology. During …

Expression of late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins is highly correlated with
desiccation tolerance in anhydrobiotic animals, selected land plants, and bacteria. Genes …

Cell-based therapeutics promise to transform the treatment of a wide range of diseases,
many of which, up to this point, are incurable. During the past decade, an increasing number …

A simple method to cryogenically preserve hepatocyte monolayers is currently not available
but such a technique would facilitate numerous applications in the field of biomedical …

A simple method to cryopreserve adherent monolayers of neuronal cells is currently not
available, but the development of this technique could facilitate numerous applications in the …

Introduction Maintaining a stable dry state is critical for long-term preservation of live
biomaterials at suprazero temperatures. The objective of the study was to characterize the …

Mammalian cells are involved in a range of biotechnological applications and more recently
have been increasingly exploited in regenerative medicine. Critical to successful …

Long-term storage of desiccated nucleated mammalian cells at ambient temperature may be
accomplished in a stable glassy state, which can be achieved by removal of water from the …

This review provides a snapshot of the current state-of-the-art of drying cells and
spermatozoa. The major successes and pitfalls of the most relevant literature are described …

DMSO is widely used as powerful cryoprotectant for the storage and transport of frozen cells.
Beyond this established application of DMSO, we could now show that it has also promising …