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Frozen Coral

December 22 , 2022 699 days 623 0
  • The scientists successfully froze Australia's Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial.
  • The Great Barrier Reef has suffered four bleaching events in the last seven years and scientists are scrambling to protect coral reefs.
  • In the lab trial, the world's first with Great Barrier Reef coral, scientists used the cryomesh to freeze coral.
  • Cryomesh is a specially fabricated mesh used as substrate in cryopreservation.
  • The ‘cryomesh’ is lightweight and can be manufactured cheaply.
  • It preserves coral in a better way and has the properties of cryoplates.

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