Abstract
Low temperatures are used by biologists primarily because they slow or prevent unwanted physical and chemical events. Unfortunately, the utility of low temperatures is usually compromised by the inconvenient fact that cooling also leads to the crystallization of water and thereby creates new and unwanted physical and even chemical events which may injure the system the biologist wishes to preserve. Although the penalties imposed by freezing are in many cases acceptable, ice formation renders biological preservation generally imperfect and sometimes inconvenient.
This work is contribution No. 688 from the American Red Cross Blood Services Laboratories and was supported in part by NIH Grants BSRG 2 S07 RR05737 and GM 17959.
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Fahy, G.M., Takahashi, T., Meryman, H.T. (1986). Practical Aspects of ICE-free Cryopreservation. In: Sibinga, C.T.S., Das, P.C., Greenwalt, T.J. (eds) Future Developments in Blood Banking. Developments in Hematology and Immunology, vol 15. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2329-7_12
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