Cryonics is the practice of keeping a clinically dead body at an extremely low temperature in hopes of restoring it to life later with the help of future medical advances. Although our research is of great interest to the cryonics community, 21st Century Medicine is not involved in cryonics. Vitrification is preservation at extremely low temperatures without freezing. Freezing causes ice crystal formation, which damages delicate structures such as blood vessels. Unlike freezing, vitrification is not harmful to even the most complicated of living systems.
Vitrification creates a crystal-free immobilized liquid state also known as a glass.