Newswise — UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE) has been awarded a $6.6 million NASA contract for phase-two development of a cryogenic freezer, called the General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator, or GLACIER, for use aboard the International Space Station (ISS). CBSE was selected to build the flight unit based on its design and construction of a prototype. "GLACIER will provide researchers in space the capability to quickly freeze samples to cryogenic temperature, -185°C," said William Crysel, M.S.M., center engineer and GLACIER project manager. "This is the equivalent of laboratories on earth freezing samples, such as blood plasma or tissue, in liquid nitrogen, which cannot be done in microgravity due to fluid-handling concerns."
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