Preservation of Cells: A Practical Manual

This book provides readers with the tools needed to develop or debug a preservation protocol for cells. The core structure and content of the text grew from a professional short course that has been offered at the Biopreservation Core Resource for the last 10 years. This comprehensive text describes, step by step, the individual elements of a protocol, including the relevant scientific principles for each phase of the protocol. It can be used by anyone who is involved in cell preservation-even by those who are not experts in freezing of cells-because it provides the scientific basis for those that want to understand the basis for the protocol.