| |||||||
| Register | Blogs | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Science Groups New! | Arcade | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
| Biology Forum Ask questions and discuss the study of Biology. If you have Biology questions from your homework ask them here! |
 |
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
06-30-2006, 08:41 PM
| ||||||
| ||||||
 Cryopreservation Cryopreservation Cryopreservation was stumbled upon by two scientists from England in 1949. Audrey Smith and Charles Polge were putting a few drops of glycerin into a petri dish containing chicken sperm in order to try and slow down the sperm. The two scientists wanted to study the motility of the sperm, however they found out that adding glycerin had interesting effects. When the scientists accidentally froze these sperm in liquid nitrogen, they survived. As described in Nature, it was the first time in history scientists had successfully cryopreserved living mammalian cells or tissue. Read more about this interesting feature here: http://www.rgs.uky.edu/odyssey/fall00/freezing.html         |
| Today
| ||||
| ||||
 Sponsored Links |
|
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Cryopreservation of Lymphocytes | pipette_man | Cell Biology and Cell Culture | 1 | 11-09-2007 04:05 PM |
| cryopreservation | aftabac | Cell Biology and Cell Culture | 2 | 07-31-2006 05:46 AM |
Linear Mode
