Tissue Cryo-Engineering

The emerging field of tissue cryo-engineering attempts to use the freezing process not only for the long-term storage of tissues, but also to specifically control the biologic activity of the tissue following thawing. As such, the growth and repair of the tissue following transplantation could be made to occur along a precisely engineered pathway that provides the optimal reconstruction of the entire joint.

• Video clip showing how the temperature changes inside a tumour in a Finite Element (FE) simulation of a cryosurgery.
• Power Point Presentation of an experiment to test the relationship between ice front curvature and the melting-point depression using ice growth in fine glass capillaries across a temperature gradient