Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in the fight to save the world's coral reefs from climate change annihilation. In a paper published in Nature Communications, lead authors E. Michael Henley and Mary Hagedorn, research biologists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology ( HIMB ), and other co-authors describe the first successful technique for cryopreserving (preserving samples using cold temperatures) and reviving entire coral fragments. This milestone was conducted in Kāneʻohe Bay at HIMB and heralds a new age for cryopreservation and coral conservation because the coral fragments contain tens of thousands of cells and are among the most complex biological systems ever successfully ushered through the cryopreservation and thawing process.

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