LifeLine Cryogenics is one of a handful companies the offers the program worldwide for the cryopreservations of sperms, eggs, embryos, ovarian tissue, and cord blood.
LifeLine Cryogenics is a private independent long term storage facility.
LifeLine Cryogenics has its own in-house State-of-the-Art laboratory handled by a professional staff.
LifeLine Cryogenics ensures security, safety, confidentiality and patient control.
History of Cryopreservation
Preserving human semen in a frozen state for later use wa first attempted in 1776 by an Italian priest and psychologist named Lazaro Spallanzani’s report, visionaries foresaw banks of frozen semen, however, no major medical advances were reached. Cryopreservation, or freezing of human sperm, has been possible for more than 100 years, but only in the post 1950’s the method achieved clinical importance.
In the 1940’s scientist discovered that semen could survive freezing and storage temperatures as low as -195 DEGREESC/ -320 DEGREES F. When cryopreservation was first presented, very few sperm survived the freezing and subsequent thaw. Since 1949, however, there have been great improvements in the ability to thaw human semen successfully. A major breakthrough came in 1949, when the British scientists develop a method of using glycerol to protect semen from injury during freezing.
This discovery paved the road to successful application of this technique. In 1953, the first human pregnancy was conceived with the frozen semen. It was not until the early 1970’s that the first commercial cryobank was established. The length of time that cryopreserved human semen can be stored and still remain viable is unlimited. Liquid Nitrogen, which allows storage (at -320 degrees F/ -196 degrees C) is used to cryopreserved semen. Storage temperature and the rate at which the temperature is decreased during the freezing procedure are critical to the survival of the sperm.
Once frozen, semen is kept in sealed cryovials beneath the surface of the liquid nitrogen. Then same technology is used in our state-of- the- art facilities to cryofreeze embryos, ovarian tissue and cord blood.
