Latest Cryopreservation Stories
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The day of true reproductive freedom for women has arrived. A new scientific study confirms the efficacy of a revolutionary egg selection and freezing process that, at long last, offers women a viable and reliable fertility preservation option. Developed and clinically tested by the scientists at ReproCure, a vanguard genetics products company, this process increases the live births derived from a cryopreserved egg almost seven-fold over the field's current...
BOTHELL, Wash., Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BioLife Solutions Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: BLFS) , a leading developer and marketer of proprietary hypothermic storage and cryopreservation media products for cells, tissues, and organs, today announced that MicroIslet Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: MIIS) , a biotechnology company engaged in developing and commercializing cellular therapies for patients with diabetes, has adopted HypoThermosol for preserving, transporting, and storing pancreatic source...
Bio-Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (OTCBB:BMSN), a biotechnology company focused on adult stem cell processing and cryogenic storage, announced today that they have received and processed human umbilical cord blood units as part of their long-term liquid nitrogen storage quality assurance and testing program. The processing and storage of these cord blood stem cells is solely for the purpose of validating the handling, processing and cryopreservation of cord blood specimens. The cord blood...
Thirty-two year old Yissel Soto, an officer in the United States Army, was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2008 and due to necessary treatment faced the additional heartache of losing her reproductive potential. Sadly, this is a common struggle for the 130,000 people each year in the US, diagnosed with cancer in the prime reproductive years and until recently, have had few fertility preservation options available to them. After learning that the military IVF center was not able...
The Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (CCRM) announced today an increase in in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates to 80 percent from its Institutional Review Board-approved clinical preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) study involving comprehensive screening of all 23 pairs of chromosomes on day five embryos (blastocysts). In May 2007, CCRM commenced this innovative, world first clinical study, which screens for all 23 pairs of chromosomes on a few cells removed from the...
Cytori (NASDAQ:CYTX) sold its first European Union StemSource(R) Cell Bank as part of an agreement with Biohellenika (www.biohellenika.gr). Biohellenika, the leading provider of cord blood stem cell banking services in Greece, will be the exclusive provider of the StemSource Cell Bank cryopreservation services in Greece, which is one of the largest markets for cell banking in Europe. The StemSource Cell Bank is a comprehensive product offering, which allows companies or hospitals to...
By Galindo, Federico Gomez Sjoholm, Ingegerd; Rasmusson, Allan G; Widell, Susanne; Kaack, Karl We review and analyze the possible advantages and disadvantages of plant-stress-related metabolic and structural changes on applications in the fruit and vegetable processing industry. Knowledge of the cellular and tissue transformations that result from environmental conditions or industrial manipulation is a powerful means for food engineers to gain a better understanding of biological systems in...
In an effort to evaluate the efficiency of oocyte vitrification (the ability for a woman to freeze her eggs for later use), Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI) is conducting an ongoing study of women interested in freezing their eggs through vitrification. This study has received renewed approval by an Investigational Review Board (IRB). FCI is the first fertility practice in the Chicago area to receive such an approval. In addition, FCI has recently been awarded an Independent Medical...
By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sperm extracted from mice and testes that have been frozen for as long as 15 years have yielded normal, healthy offspring in a study which researchers say heralds fresh hopes for bringing back extinct species. Frozen sperm is now preserved with cryoprotectants, substances that protect it from freezing damage. However, defrosted sperm is not always capable of fertilising an egg. But researchers from Japan, Britain and Hawaii have found that sperm can...
WASHINGTONÂ -- The latest research on water - still one of the least understood of all liquids despite a century of intensive study "“ seems to support the possibility that cells, tissues and even the entire human body could be cryopreserved without formation of damaging ice crystals, according to University of Helsinki researcher Anatoli Bogdan, Ph.D. He conducted the study, scheduled for the July 6 issue of the ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry B, one of 34 peer-review journals...
