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Henry Power reported the survival of “vinegar eels” frozen by exposure to a “keen frost” outside or to a freezing bath of salt and ice in the laboratory
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Procedure used on cancer patient
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Red Blood Cells were being frozen to be supplied to the wounded during the war.
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FirstSperm Cryopreserved
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According to Freezing to the Future, in London, England, 1949, Audrey Smith and Charles Polge put a few drops of glycerin into a petri dish containing chicken sperm. The glycerin, which was intended to slow down the sperm so the scientists could study its movement, had an unexpected side effect—when the scientists accidentally froze these sperm in liquid nitrogen, they survived.
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