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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Aug 23;5(8):793–804. doi: 10.1038/s41551-021-00784-z

Fig. 1 |. Preservation of mammalian biospecimens.

Fig. 1 |

The preservation of cells, tissues and organs from human donors, and of engineered specimens from them, involves slow freezing, vitrification or hypothermic storage (with machine perfusion). Preserved biospecimens enable a wide range of biomedical applications. CPA, cryoprotective agent.