Future Goals

CryoXtract’s frozen sample aliquotter is the most effective sample retrieval system. It prevents sample degradation by keeping the sample frozen, unlike all other current methods, which require thawing.

To manufacturers of automated equipment for biorepositories, the technology offers an opportunity to market a revolutionary automated and integrated sample handling system that delivers increased repository capacity without increasing storage expenses. It also offers significant savings in space and processing time.


To researchers at academic, government, and commercial laboratories the technology would be a necessary instrument that enables them to extract aliquots from precious frozen samples without going through any freeze-thaw cycles; thus preserving the integrity and future value of the specimens, increasing laboratory efficiency, and decreasing sample preparation costs. Specimen degradation due to freeze-thaw can cause laboratories to repeat expensive experiments in order to get more samples.


Not only will this technology reduce the cost of operating the repositories and improve the viability of specimens while eliminating the second freeze/thaw cycle associated with the current approaches, but it will increase the throughput in processing samples because it is automated. Use of the frozen sample aliquotter can reduce the time required for a 1,000 sample study from 6½ weeks to one week.