How to Use cryopreservation in a Sentence

cryopreservation

noun
  • The team took stem cells from mice, then froze them solid, a process called cryopreservation.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The new cryopreservation process has been years in the making.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But each species seems to need its own cryopreservation protocol.
    — Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
  • Still, developing cryopreservation techniques that work on reef species has proved tricky.
    — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 July 2017
  • Many clinics still use older cryopreservation tanks that must be filled with liquid nitrogen by hand, and there is no standard set-up for alarms.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Coral cryopreservation is difficult in part because freezing and thawing wreak havoc on cells.
    — Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Coral cryopreservation is difficult in part because freezing and thawing wreak havoc on cells.
    — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
  • And for those choosing to delay having children, the company is paying for egg and sperm cryopreservation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The tissue was then placed in liquid nitrogen, commonly used in cryopreservation, for long-term storage.
    — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 27 July 2016
  • Under the agreement, the process known as cryopreservation would be performed in a lab, and the frozen embryos would be transferred to a storage facility.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2022
  • At age 35, Sun underwent oocyte cryopreservation, or egg freezing, yielding three to four eggs each cycle.
    — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The procedure, known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, has helped many people potentially expand their timeline for having kids.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 15 May 2021
  • To reduce this risk, Hagedorn and the team thought about how cryopreservation could be achieved passively, which is impossible on Earth, and alighted on the moon.
    — Jack Guy, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Preservation techniques such as cryopreservation can allow tissue samples such as bone marrow to function similarly to that of living donor sources.
    — Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Known as cryopreservation, this step will be vital to protect the viability of tissues from human boys for future fertility.
    — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
  • The egg freezing process, otherwise medically known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a step that some women prefer to take to prepare for family planning down the road.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But for those that participate, the cryopreservation process begins as soon as a person is declared legally dead, according to Alcor’s website.
    — Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The waiting list for Tomorrow Biostasis, a cryopreservation startup based in Germany, is in the hundreds.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Chinese performed their first cryopreservation in 2017, and Yinfeng’s storage vats hold only a dozen clients.
    — New York Times, 26 June 2021
  • Shortly after he was diagnosed with the fatal disease, TJ underwent a cryopreservation procedure to freeze his sperm.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2022
  • There are two hundred and fifty two people currently suspended in cryopreservation at the Alcor facility with more than fifteen hundred people signed up for the future.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • With environmental pressure on the reefs rising, the researchers needed a cryopreservation strategy that was more effective than focusing on sperm.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Hagedorn and her collaborators previously pioneered the cryopreservation of coral sperm, with techniques similar to those used in human sperm banks.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Whereas the goal with IVF is to produce an embryo that will then be implanted in a patient’s body, oocyte cryopreservation banks unfertilized eggs for later use.
    — Courtney Vinopal, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
  • As for research into cryopreservation of larger organisms, the authors suggest that this becomes trickier as the organism in question becomes more complex.
    — Wired, 27 June 2021
  • The products could also prove useful in the cryopreservation of biological cells, tissues, and organs, which are susceptible to ice-crystal formation.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Researchers were pleasantly surprised to find that spaceflight did not affect how well the germ cells sustained themselves through cryopreservation, underlining an important option for future human use.
    — Jessica Rendall, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Because the worms, which number in the millions, are essentially stuck in the conditions they were collected in thanks to cryopreservation, researchers can use them for tests for decades without worry, Tintori said.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2024
  • As reefs worldwide are threatened by rising sea temperatures, bleaching, and acidification, cryopreservation is a growing part of the strategy to restore these ecosystems.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • An article last Sunday about the cryonics industry misspelled the name of a Russian cryopreservation company.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2021

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