Focus: Identifying and solving problems in the integrity of tissue samples after cryopreservation. The effective cryopreservation of living tissue would be a significant achievement for areas ranging from medicine to space exploration. The current methods for preserving living cells and tissue are problematic due to toxic cryopreservation agents and the crystallization of water. This study used three agents with vitrification of rat smooth muscle tissue rings. The final results were compared against the commonly used 10% DMSO.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Schwamb, John Patrick
• Howell-Munson, Alicia Nadine
• Dettloff, Kristen
• Torres Yabar, Alessandra Sofia

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042519-075556

Advisor

• Ryder, Elizabeth F.
• Rolle, Marsha Whitney
• Heilman, Destin

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemistry

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved