“…After several decades of research efforts, the cryopreservation technology has advanced adequately to allow better management of biological resources, such as cell suspensions (Fuller, 2004;Morris, 2007) and model organisms like nematodes (Brenner, 1974), Drosophila (Mazur et al, 1992), zebrafish (Cardona-Costa and Garcia-Ximenez, 2007;Carmichael et al, 2009), Xenopus (Sargent and Mohun, 2005), and mouse (Whittingham et al, 1972;Wilmut, 1972). The emergence of vitrification has further advanced basic REVIEW V C 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.…”