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Why Cryopreservation is No Longer Science Fiction with Until Co-founder and CEO Laura Deming
January 29, 2026·31 min·3 clips
Ice expands and destroys cells—but below -130°C, ice formation stops entirely.
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Cryopreservation is framed as an engineering problem, with organ preservation as the nearer promise and scale as the central obstacle.
The episode treats cryopreservation as an engineering challenge, not a spectacle. It tracks the near-term case for preserving single human organs to improve transplant access, then widens to the long-range ambition of reversible whole-body cryopreservation for medical…
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You want cryopreservation explained as an engineering problem, not a sci-fi flourish.
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