Cryobiology

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Cryobiology

• The Freezing Process

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Salary of a Cryobiologist

• Most Cryobiologist work 8 hours a day, five days
  a week
• Cryobiologist conducting independent research may
  set their own hours.
• Depending on your degree your salary may range
  from 29 500- 42 000.
• Most salaried cryobiologists receive health and
  life insurance, paid sick, holiday, and vacation
  days, and
• receive retirement benefits
• Most cryobiologists who conduct independent
  research depend on grants and other sources of
  funding and usually provide their own benefits.

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Education Required

• Recommended High School courses are Biology,
  Chemistry, and Physics. As well as Algebra,
  Geometry and Trigonometry. English and college
  prep. Classes are also recommended.
• Generrally speaking, Students do not major in
  cryobiology during the undergrad years because it
  is a special field.
• A Masters or doctoral degree is usually required
  for independant research.
• A masters degree requires about two years of
  course work and seminars in cryobiology, and
  completion of an original laboratory research
  project.
• Study for a doctoral degree includes research and
  laboratory work leading to new scientific
  findings presented in a formal written thesis.
• It takes from four to six years to earn a Ph.D.

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Duties of a Cryobiologists

• The hands on scientists job is to experiment with
  people and animals.
• Cryonics is a myth at this point freezing humans
  without killing them is impossible
• Most Cryobiologists study these 6 major areas
• Study of cold-adaptation of micro-organisms,
  plants, animals
• Cryopreservation of cells, tissues, gametes and
  embryos of animal and human origin for purposes
  of long-term storage
• Preservation of organs under hypothermic
  conditions for transplantation
• Lyophilisation of pharmaceuticals
• Cryosurgery, a (minimally) invasive approach for
  the destruction of unhealthy tissue using
  cryogenic gases/fluids.
• Physics of supercooling, ice nucleation/growth
  and mechanical engineering aspects of heat
  transfer during cooling and warming.

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Relation to Biotechnology

• Biotechnology Lifetechnology,
• Cryobiology Freezing Life
• Freezing is the technology and Life.
• The type and specifics of biotechnology is
  freezing of organisms

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Info about the field

• I couldnt find any information about the recent
  discoveries in the field of cryobiology.
• Unless you are an independent researcher you
  would be working mostly with other Cryobiologists
  but also several engineers and a few supervisors.

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The technology

• This is a russells tech freezer.

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Specific studies in cryobiology

• Cryobiology the study of life at
  low temperatures.
• Cryogenics is the branch of physics and engineeri
  ng that studies the production and use of very
  low temperatures. Cryogenics is not cryonics,
  although people often confuse them.
• Cryonics is the low temperature preservation of
  humans and mammals with the intention of future
  revival. Cryonics is not part of mainstream
  cryobiology. Cryonics still depends heavily on
  speculative future technology which may or may
  not be invented.
• Cryopreservation is a technology whereby cells,
  whole tissues, or embryos are preserved by
  cooling to temperatures below the freezing point
  of water.

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TV history

• Cryobiology has a lot of history on TV.
• Its most known appearance is probably on the show
  Futurama but it also appeared in an Austin Powers
  movie and a villain in batman lives in a
  cryogenic freezer. (Mr. Freeze)

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Interesting facts

• It is a known fact that famous baseball player
  Ted Williams and his son John-Henry were frozen
  after their deaths.
• Cryobiology could become obsolete before it is
  even possible to freeze humans. With the
  development of healing people with embryos and
  adult stem cells.

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