Cryopreservation has become a central technology in many areas of clinical medicine,
biotechnology, and species conservation within both plant and animal biology …

Undesired ice accumulation leads to severe economic issues and, in some cases, loss of
lives. Although research on anti-icing has been carried out for decades, environmentally …

Efficient utilization of solar energy for clean water is an attractive, renewable, and
environment friendly way to solve the long-standing water crisis. For this task, we prepared …

Freezing can prolong the shelf life of muscle foods and is widely used in their preservation.
However, inevitable quality deterioration can occur during freezing, frozen storage, and …

Cryopreservation of tissues and organs can bring transformative changes to medicine and
medical science. In the past decades, limited progress has been achieved, although …

Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) were discovered in marine fishes that need protection from
freezing. These ice-binding proteins (IBPs) are widespread across biological kingdoms, and …

Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) are a diverse class of proteins that assist organism survival in the
presence of ice in cold climates. They have different origins in many organisms, including …

The study of biochemical adaption provides fascinating insights into how organisms" work"
and how they evolve to sustain physiological function under a vast array of environmental …

Temperature is one facet in the mosaic of physical and biotic factors that describes the niche
of an animal. Ofthe physical factors it is ecologically the most important. for it is a factor that is …

The mechanism of ice nucleation at the molecular level remains largely unknown. Nature
endows antifreeze proteins (AFPs) with the unique capability of controlling ice formation …