# Anticipating Biopreservation Technologies that Pause Biological Time: Building Governance & Coordination Across Applications

## TL;DR

New biopreservation methods could pause biological time, enabling better storage of organs and tissues for medicine and conservation.

## Contribution

The paper introduces emerging biopreservation technologies and emphasizes the need for governance and coordination across their applications.

## Key findings

- Subzero biopreservation methods like supercooling and vitrification are advancing rapidly.
- These technologies could enable large-scale banking of biomedical products.
- Reanimating techniques such as nanoparticle infusion and laser rewarming are being developed.

## Abstract

Advanced biopreservation technologies using subzero approaches such as supercooling, partial freezing, and vitrification with reanimating techniques including nanoparticle infusion and laser rewarming are rapidly emerging as technologies with potential to radically disrupt biomedicine, research, aquaculture, and conservation. These technologies could pause biological time and facilitate large-scale banking of biomedical products including organs, tissues, and cell therapies.