Close-up selfie shot of three members of the Anatomy Dissection Lab at the University College Dublin School of Veterinary Medicine 

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Staff photo of the Boston Children's Hospital, standing outside in front of the hospital sign, taken for the freezer challenge

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Members of the Illinois Natural History Survey-Wildlife Veterinary Epidemiology Laboratory at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, taken outside on a sunny day in front of a gazebo-like structure for the 2023 freezer challenge.

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Staff photo of the Labcorp Biorepository Services Lab, taken in front of a brick and concrete building with landscaping.

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Staff photo of the Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Products Laboratory at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in the lobby, taken in front of potted plants and the center name for the 2023 freezer challenge

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Staff photo of the Green Labs/Sustainability team at the University of Alabama, Birmingham involved in the Freezer Challenge. Taken in the hallway next to a ULT freezer set to -64 degrees C, holding up two framed Freezer challenge certificates.

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Staff photo of the Southwest Pathology Services lab, taken inside of the lab in front of various instruments, wearing SYNLAB labcoats for the 2023 Freezer Challenge..

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Staff photo of the Gothenburg Biobank at AstraZeneca, shot on a rooftop terrace in an urban setting with parkland behind. Taken for the 2023 freezer challenge.

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Staff photo of the Drug Safety Evaluation Lab at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, taken in the lab, wearing lab coats.

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Formal group portrait photo of the members of the GI Oncology Lab at Johns Hopkins, seated outside in the university quad in front of a picturesque building and trees, taken for the 2023 freezer challenge.

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Group photo of staff at the Amsterdam UMC Biobank standing next to cryogenic tanks

Staff photo of the Biochemistry Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK, standing in their lab in front of ULT freezers wearing lab coats

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Three stacked images of staff from NIH labs: Top is Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Montana, taken outside with buildings and mountains in the background; Middle is the Bethesda Campus, Maryland, taken in front of a modern glass and concrete building; and last is from the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, taken on a patio surrounded by vegetation..

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Staff photo of the Molecular Biology and DNA Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK, taken outside in a park-like setting under a tree, with a low brick building and glass greenhouse in the background. Taken for the 2023 Freezer Challenge.

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Thermo-insulated gloved hands pull a frozen sample in a cryotube out of a freezer box using forceps

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Staff/members of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign standing on the steps of a glass, brick, and concrete building on campus, taken for the 2023 Freezer Challenge.

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Group photo of staff at Amgen's headquarters in Thousand Oaks, California, standing in front of the George B. Rathmann Laboratory building

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Group photo of staff from the Bristol Bioresource Laboratories at the University of Bristol, posing on stairs and landing outside of the entrance to a building

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Lab staff from AstraZeneca's South San Francisco Biobank posing in front of a fleet of ultra-low temperature freezers in the lab

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Lab staff from Lab plus at coventry university posing in blue lab coats in front of ultra-low temperature freezers in the lab

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Group photo of representatives from the Smith Lab, Rao Lab, Research Operations, and Green Labs at the Boston Children's Hospital, posing outside in front of a building and trees.

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Group photo of staff and researchers with the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, UK, posed in front of trees and brush with a sign for The Institute of Cancer Research

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group photo of staff from the Bedford Lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center posing in a lab aisle

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Large group photo of staff from the Central Veterinary Laboratory, posing outside of the Veterinary Technical Services building in the shade of a tree, in Harare, Zimbabwe

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Group photo of staff from the Indiana CTSI Specimen Storage Facility, taken on a brick patio at the entrance of a building

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Group photo of researchers and staff from the Dr Upender Manne lab in front of an image wall with "Difficultas ne deferrem - Difficulties do not deter us" displayed in script.

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Group photo of staff from the Ostrander Laboratory standing in front of a wall displaying "National Human Genome Research Institute" and logo

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group photo of staff from the process biochemistry lab at Biogen posing in lab coats in front of a fleet of ultra-low temperature freezers in the lab

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Staff of the NSW Biochemical Genetics Service Laboratory in masks and lab coats in the lab, with one opening an ultra-low-temperature freezer wearing thermal gloves

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large group photo of staff and researchers at the university of Illinois Urbana Champaign, taken in a landscaped courtyard in front of a large brick building

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group photo of staff at the microbiology laboratory of saint vincent's hospital, posing in a hall wearing masks

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group photo of staff from the pivotal biologics lab at Amgen Massachusetts posing in lab coats in front of a bank of ultra-low temperature freezers in the lab

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A full list of winners from the 2022 Lab Freezer Challenge

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Group photo of staff and researchers at the biopathology center at nationwide children's Abigail Wexner Research Institute, posing in front of a large fleet of ultra-low temperature freezers

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group photo of staff and researchers from the microbial self-healing research group posing in front of a lobby with a photo/poster wall and a sign saying "Badan Riset Dan Inovasi Nasional"

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group photo of researchers and staff from the Wood Lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center posing on grass in front of trees

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group photo of members of the Traidl-Hoffman Environmental Medicine lab posing in front of a plank wall in the lab with another person seen on a laptop screen mid-video-conference call

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group photo of staff and researchers from the University of Virginia, taken on the steps in front of a brick and cement building

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group photo of staff and researchers from the Van Der Pol lab and the University of Alabama Birmingham Green Labs, standing in front of a brick building wall

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