• Question: At what temperature would blood freeze???

    Asked by Crowsy is my name?? to Jaine, Annette on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Annette Neill

      Annette Neill answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      You can “freeze”/preserve red blood cells by adding glycerol to them which protects the cellular structure-they did this in the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and we also did it with Bone Marrow in Crumlin. The correct terminology is Cryopreserving-you store the frozen red cells at minus 80 degrees in liquid nitrogen

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