We are pleased to announce a new ATP-Bio publication in Cryobiology
Need for harmonized terminology in cryopreservation to support reproducibility, regulation, and translation
Cryobiology (March 2026); Volume 122: 105584
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryobiol.2026.105584
This open-access paper highlights a critical challenge in the cryobiology community: the need for consistent, shared terminology. As cryopreservation technologies rapidly advance toward clinical, industrial, and regulatory applications, precise language becomes essential for scientific reproducibility, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and translation to practice.
The authors outline how variability in terminology can create barriers to interpretation, comparison, and regulatory clarity—and propose a path toward greater harmonization across the field.
Dr. Lakshya Gangwar is a researcher with ATP-Bio Engineering Research Center and the lead author of a recent paper on “Cryopreservation Terminology Harmonization” in Cryobiology. Lakshya, co-authors, senior authors Prof.s Susan Wolf and Korkut Uygun, are all part of a ATP-Bio multidisciplinary team of engineers, clinicians, ethicists, lawyers, etc. where they examined the urgent need for harmonized terminology in cryopreservation to improve reproducibility, regulatory clarity, ethical governance, and translation across medicine, conservation, food, and agriculture.
[About the journal: The Official Journal of the Society for Cryobiology. Cryobiology: International Journal of Low Temperature Biology and Medicine publishes research articles on all aspects of low temperature biology and medicine.]
