Does cryotherapy really work? Learn how whole-body cryotherapy may aid muscle recovery, weight loss, and skin health — or if it’s just another wellness gimmick.

The use of cold temperatures for therapeutic purposes dates back to ancient civilizations. Today it is known as cryotherapy, ...

Cryotherapy first gained popularity in Japan in the late 1970s and has recently become more and more trendy. Now, cryofacials ...

While liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is effective ... with an immediate component felt by the patient during the actual freezing process, and a delayed component occurring after the treated site ...

More information: Farah Benyettou et al, Freezing-Activated Covalent Organic Frameworks for Precise Fluorescence Cryo-Imaging of Cancer Tissue, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025).

To answer this question, Dr. Qi and his colleagues used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). By freezing molecules at temperatures around minus 196 C (about minus 320 F) and bombarding them with ...