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Survival of Mouse Embryos after Freezing and Thawing

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COMPARED with the successful storage of spermatozoa and other tissue cells at sub-zero temperatures, attempts to preserve frozen mammalian eggs have been disappointing (reviewed in refs. 1 and 2), although a few pregnancies have resulted from the transfer of previously frozen fertilized rabbit eggs3 and unfertilized mouse eggs4 to recipient foster mothers. I now wish to describe a technique for obtaining a high proportion of viable embryos after subjecting them to sub-zero temperatures.

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WHITTINGHAM, D. Survival of Mouse Embryos after Freezing and Thawing. Nature 233, 125–126 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233125a0

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