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Vinegar Eels
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 -
James Arnott
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World War II
Red Blood Cells were being frozen to be supplied to the wounded during the war. -
Christopher Polge
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Glycerin
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. -
First Baby Born From Cryopreserved Egg