Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable. In most cases, organs will be kept on ice during that time, at around 4 °C (39 °F). They cannot be frozen - in previous attempts, ice has formed, causing all kinds of damage. Matthew Powell Palm at Texas A&M University and his colleagues h
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