Vitrification in assisted reproduction / edited by Michael J. Tucker, PhD, FIBiol, HCLD(AAB), Director of IVF and Embryology Laboratories, Shady Grove Fertility RSC, Rockville, Maryland, USA, Juergen Liebermann, PhD, HCLD(AAB), Director of Embryology, Andrology & Endocrinology Laboratories, Fertility Centers of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Overview of biological vitrification / Gregory M. Fahy
Vitrification of oocytes and embryos : finally a recognized technique, but still a source of concern and debate / Pierre Vanderzwalmen, Nicolas H. Zech, Fabien Ectors, Yannis Panagiotidis, Achillae Papatheodorou, Prapas Yannis, and Barbara Wirleitner
Intracellular concentration of cryoprotectant during vitrification and slow-freezing cryopreservation procedures / Pierre Vanderzwalmen, Fabien Ectors, Barbara Wirleitner, Astrid Stecher, Deborah Desmet, Jacqueline Greindl, Amandine Helson, Sabine Vanderzwalmen, Mark G. Larman, Nicolas H. Zech, and Delphine Connan
Importance of cooling versus warming rates in vitrification techniques / Shinsuke Seki
The movement of water and cryoprotectants in mammalian oocytes and embryos : membrane permeability and aquaporins / Keisuke Edashige and Magosaburo Kasai
Open versus closed systems / Mark G. Larman and Pierre Vanderzwalmen
Automatic vitrification : development of the Gavi system / Tammie K. Roy, Susanna Brandi, Cara K. Bradley, and Teija T. Peura
Vitrification at minimum volume : from basic science to clinical application / Amir Arav
Vitrification of oocytes : general considerations and the use of the Cryotec method / Masashige Kuwayama
Safety of vitrification and cryostorage and optimization of cryopreservation protocols / Lodovico Parmegiani and Marco Filicori
Physiological aspects of oocyte vitrification / Mark G. Larman and David K. Gardner
Vitrification of oocytes : imprinting and disturbance in spindle formation and chromosome segregation / Tom Trapphoff
Metabolic profile of day 3 embryos arising from vitrified oocytes / Damià Castelló and Francisco Domínguez
Vitrification of human oocytes for in vitro fertilization patients / Laura Rienzi, Benedetta Iussig, and Filippo Maria Ubaldi
Oocyte vitrification : donor "egg banking" / Zsolt Peter Nagy, Ana Cobo, and Ching-Chien Chang.

Fertility preservation for oncology patients / Kara N. Goldman, Caroline McCaffrey, and Nicole Noyes
Vitrification of human ovarian tissue / Mona Sheikhi and Outi Hovatta
Vitrification of cleavage-stage embryos and blastocysts and their neonatal outcomes / Tetsunori Mukaida and Chikahiro Oka
Vitrification of human blastocysts : clinical realities and neonatal outcomes / Juergen Liebermann
Development and hatching of human blastocysts after vitrification and warming / Joe Conaghan and Sergio Vaccari
Does storage of vitrified blastocysts have an impact on implantation potential and birth rate? / Barbara Wirleitner, Nicolas H. Zech, and Pierre Vanderzwalmen
Ovarian tissue vitrification : clinical realities and outcomes : chapter for basic science to clinical application / Sherman Silber
Vitrification of human testicular tissue, spermatogonia, and spermatozoa / Christine Wyns, Gael Abou-Ghannam, and Jonathan Poels
Vitrification in pluripotent stem cell banking : requirements and technical solutions for large-scale biobanks / Julia C. Neubauer, Axel F. Beier, Frank Stracke, and Heiko Zimmermann
Scrying the future : the ongoing transformation of reproductive medicine through vitrification / Kevin S. Richter, James R. Graham, and Michael J. Tucker.