A new technique could more than triple the amount of time livers can be stored before an organ transplant, a study in rats suggests. Greatly extending the amount of time organs can be stored could ...

Thanks to the magic of modern science, surgeons are able to remove failing livers and replace them with healthy ones from suitable donors, but they work within a pretty small window of opportunity.

Due to the brief period of time a human organ can be kept alive outside the body, organ transplants are a race against the clock. All kinds of different transportation methods have been explored to ...

Films prepared from aqueous semiclathrate hydrate solutions with and without silver nanoparticles. In sample 13, which included both silver nanoparticles and fluoride anions, 10–30 nm clusters formed ...

Now a new supercooling technique for human organs promises to extend the period from the moment of removal to 1.5 days rather than just a few hours. This provides a useful window of time within which ...