How can fertilized embryos maintain their viability after being frozen?

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As I understand, one of the reasons we haven’t figured out something like cryogenic sleep is that cells are irreparably damaged during the freezing and thawing process. How do we manage to avoid those problems when freezing and storing embryos for the purposes of IVF?

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imagine someone asks you to reset a jack in the box, pretty easy right? now imagine some asks you to reset a large Hadron Collider. a fertilized embryo is the jack in the box, a large Hadron Collider is a live human, so so so many things could go wrong with trying to get something that complex up and running vs the former.

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