Successful organ or tissue long-term preservation would revolutionize biomedicine.
Cartilage cryopreservation enables prolonged shelf life of articular cartilage, posing the …

Cryopreservation has numerous practical applications in medicine, biotechnology,
agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and biodiversity conservation, with huge potentials for …

Preserving viable articular cartilage is a promising approach to address the shortage of graft
tissue and enable the clinical repair of articular cartilage defects in articulating joints, such …

There is increasing interest in the possibility of treating diseased or damaged areas of
synovial joint surfaces by grafts of healthy allogeneic cartilage. Such grafts could be …

Tissue engineered cartilage constructs have potential clinical applications in human
healthcare. Their effective utilization is, however, hampered by the lack of an optimal …

Osteochondral allograft transplantation can treat full thickness cartilage and bone lesions in
the knee and other joints, but the lack of widespread articular cartilage banking limits the …

Background As a relatively non-regenerative tissue, articular cartilage has been targeted for
cryopreservation as a method of mitigating a lack of donor tissue availability for transplant …

Damaged articular cartilage (AC) impairs joint function and many treatment techniques are
being investigated to determine their long term results. Successful cryopreservation of AC …

Long-term storage of natural tissues or tissue-engineered constructs is critical to allow off-
the-shelf availability. Vitrification is a method of cryopreservation that eliminates ice …

This study aimed to optimise methods of cryopreserving human articular cartilage (AC)
tissue for the isolation of late chondrocytes. Human AC specimens from osteoarthritis …