Ice inhibition for cryopreservation: materials, strategies, and challenges

T Chang, G Zhao - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cryopreservation technology has developed into a fundamental and important supporting
method for biomedical applications such as cell‐based therapeutics, tissue engineering …

Print me an organ! Why we are not there yet

WL Ng, CK Chua, YF Shen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Bioprinting offers a highly-automated and advanced manufacturing platform that facilitates
the deposition of bio-inks (living cells, biomaterials and growth factors) in a scalable and …

The promise of organ and tissue preservation to transform medicine

S Giwa, JK Lewis, L Alvarez, R Langer, AE Roth… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to replace organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives
each year globally and create public health benefits on par with curing cancer. Unmet needs …

Vitrification and nanowarming enable long-term organ cryopreservation and life-sustaining kidney transplantation in a rat model

Z Han, JS Rao, L Gangwar, BE Namsrai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Banking cryopreserved organs could transform transplantation into a planned procedure
that more equitably reaches patients regardless of geographical and time constraints …

Bioinspired ice-binding materials for tissue and organ cryopreservation

Z Liu, X Zheng, J Wang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cryopreservation of tissues and organs can bring transformative changes to medicine and
medical science. In the past decades, limited progress has been achieved, although …

Improved tissue cryopreservation using inductive heating of magnetic nanoparticles

N Manuchehrabadi, Z Gao, J Zhang, HL Ring… - Science translational …, 2017 - science.org
Vitrification, a kinetic process of liquid solidification into glass, poses many potential benefits
for tissue cryopreservation including indefinite storage, banking, and facilitation of tissue …

Bioinspired Freeze‐Tolerant Soft Materials: Design, Properties, and Applications

Z Wang, C Valenzuela, J Wu, Y Chen, L Wang, W Feng - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In nature, many biological organisms have developed the exceptional antifreezing ability to
survive in extremely cold environments. Inspired by the freeze resistance of these …

Supercooling extends preservation time of human livers

RJ de Vries, SN Tessier, PD Banik, S Nagpal… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The inability to preserve vascular organs beyond several hours contributes to the scarcity of
organs for transplantation,. Standard hypothermic preservation at+ 4° C (refs.,) limits liver …

New approaches to cryopreservation of cells, tissues, and organs

MJ Taylor, BP Weegman, SC Baicu… - Transfusion Medicine and …, 2019 - karger.com
In this concept article, we outline a variety of new approaches that have been conceived to
address some of the remaining challenges for developing improved methods of …

Partial freezing of rat livers extends preservation time by 5-fold

SN Tessier, RJ de Vries, CA Pendexter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The limited preservation duration of organs has contributed to the shortage of organs for
transplantation. Recently, a tripling of the storage duration was achieved with supercooling …