{"id":94240,"date":"2019-07-29T20:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/freezing-cells-made-safer-thanks-to-new-polymer"},"modified":"2019-07-29T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T03:22:51","slug":"freezing-cells-made-safer-thanks-to-new-polymer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/freezing-cells-made-safer-thanks-to-new-polymer","title":{"rendered":"Freezing cells made safer thanks to new polymer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/freezing-cells-made-safer-thanks-to-new-polymer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cell freezing (cryopreservation)\u2014which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research\u2014can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant, discovered at the University of Warwick, which reduces the amount of \u2018anti-freeze\u2019 needed to protect cells.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to freeze and store cells for cell-based therapies and research has taken a step forward in the paper \u201cA synthetically scalable poly(ampholyte) which dramatically Enhances Cellular Cryopreservation.\u201d published by the University of Warwick\u2019s Department of Chemistry and Medical School in the journal <i>Biomacromolecules<\/i>. The new polymer material protects the cells during freezing, leading to more cells being recovered and less solvent-based antifreeze being required.<\/p>\n<p>Cryopreservation of cells is an essential process, enabling banking and distribution of cells, which would otherwise degrade. The current methods rely on adding traditional \u2018antifreezes\u2019 to the cells to protect them from the cold stress, but not all the cells are recovered and it is desirable to lower the amount of solvent added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell freezing (cryopreservation)\u2014which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research\u2014can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant, discovered at the University of Warwick, which reduces the amount of \u2018anti-freeze\u2019 needed to protect cells. The ability to freeze and store cells for cell-based therapies and research has taken a step forward [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,45,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-finance","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}