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Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy is the official journal of the DGTI (German Society for Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology). A couple of years ago, the Society has extended its scope from mainly blood (and blood cells) to cells and tissues, and consequently the scope of the journal has been widened as well. This is the reason why this international issue deals with the preservation of hematopoietic blood stem cells (Hornberger et al. [1]), stem cells for cellular therapies (Hunt [2]), vitrification of oocytes and embryos (Arav and Natan [3]), cryopreservation of ovarian tissue (Rivas Leonel et al. [4]), organ preservation (Petrenko et al. [5]), and remaining challenges of biopreservation (Taylor et al. [6]). The 20 authors of these 6 contributions are affiliated with some 15 institutions, and these institutions are located in 7 countries, i.e. (in alphabetical order), Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Israel, the UK, Ukraine, and the USA