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ReviewNature biomedical engineering2021

Advanced technologies for the preservation of mammalian biospecimens.

Haishui Huang, Xiaoming He, Martin L Yarmush

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Review in Nature biomedical engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Principles Underlying Cryopreservation and Freeze-Drying of Cells.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  4. Anti-Icing Organogel Enables Quasi-Homogeneous Supercooling Preservation of Mouse Hearts.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  6. Engineering CAR-T Therapeutics for Enhanced Solid Tumor Targeting.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Haishui HuangCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA, USA. haishuihuang@xjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8144-5666
Xiaoming HeFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. shawnhe@umd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0125-6086
Martin L YarmushCenter for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA, USA. ireis@sbi.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4986-8444

Funding

Bio-MicroElectroMechanical Systems Resource CenterP41EB002503 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI TONER, MEHMET · 2004 to 2018
$17.4M
Microfluidic encapsulation of ovarian follicles for biomimetic 3D culture andcryopreservationR01EB023632 · NIBIB · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI HE, XIAOMING · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
Deep Supercooling of Red Blood Cells: Towards Practical Long Term StorageR01HL145031 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI USTA, OSMAN BERK, YARMUSH, MARTIN L · 2020 to 2023
$1.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145031NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB002503NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023632
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The three classical core technologies for the preservation of live mammalian biospecimens-slow freezing, vitrification and hypothermic storage-limit the biomedical applications of biospecimens. In this Review, we summarize the principles and procedures of these three technologies, highlight how their limitations are being addressed via the combination of microfabrication and nanofabrication, materials science and thermal-fluid engineering and discuss the remaining challenges.

Indexed as

AnimalsFreezingHumansHydrogelsMagneticsNanotechnologySpecimen HandlingTemperatureTissue PreservationVitrificationHydrogels

Identifiers

PMID34426675
PMCPMC8765766

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