Gallery

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Cryopreservation - general

Cryomicroscopy
Physics of freezing - freeze fracture images
Erythrocyte cryopreservation - freeze fracture images
Algal cryopreservation - freeze fracture images
Algal cryopreservation - cryomicroscopy

IVF cryopreservation

Sperm cryopreservation - freeze fracture images
Sperm cryopreservation - freeze substitution images
Oocyte cryopreservation - freeze fracture images

Freeze drying

Freeze dried instant coffee - scanning electron micrographs
Freeze dried pharmaceuticals - scanning electron micrographs

Food

Sugar bloom - scanning electron micrographs

Videos (See Ashwood-Smith et al., (1988) Human Reproduction, 3, 795-802 for details)

Human oocyte - initial extracellular ice formation

Human oocyte - intracellular ice formation

Mouse two cell embryo