Liver, supercooled

A new supercooling technique that triples the time livers can be preserved for transplant could make more livers available for patients and increase the usability of donated organs for developing regenerative therapies.¹ Harvard Medical School and spinout Organ Solutions LLC are extending the studies from rats to larger species and scaling up the method in preparation for an FDA submission next year.

Korkut Uygun, the lead scientist on the study, founded Organ Solutions to help drive the studies and commercialize the technology. Uygun is an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School...