Word: glycerol
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...leaders in developing the new techniques is the New York Blood Center. The process begins the minute that the blood is donated to the center. Tubes of sample blood go to the laboratory for high-speed analysis and typing. Centrifuges separate out various blood components; the red cells, with glycerol added to prevent ice-crystal formation, are flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen at -320° F. Stored at this same temperature in thin stainless-steel flasks, they will keep for years. Says the center's Biochemist Arthur W. Rowe, who developed the technique: "We have taken a long step...
Organized Elements. The evidence of extraterrestrial bugs is less convincing. Meteorite connoisseurs have long known that rare meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites contain carbon compounds found in living organisms. Drs. Claus and Nagy got small samples of five chondrites, crushed them in water or glycerol on glass slides and examined them under the microscope. In three samples from two meteorites (Orgueil, which fell in 1864, and Ivuna in 1938) they found large numbers of "organized elements" that do not resemble any known mineral form. Their guarded conclusion: the organized elements may be microfossils that came to earth aboard the meteorite...