Properties of Cells and Tissues Influencing Preservation Outcome: Molecular Basis of Preservation-Induced Cell Death

This is due in part to the growing interest and success in the areas of personalized medicine and drug discovery. With expanded applications, new demands have been placed on the preservation sciences to provide methodologies that facilitate retention of high degrees of cell viability and function in complex and sensitive systems such as stem cells, cord blood, engineered cells and tissues, etc. In many ways, these demands have pushed the preservation sciences to a limit based on the traditional approaches and parameters guiding the discipline.