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    Supercooling extends preservation time of human livers

    The inability to preserve vascular organs beyond several hours contributes to the scarcity of organs for transplantation1,2. Standard hypothermic preservation at +4 °C (refs. 1,3) limits liver preservation to les...

    Reinier J. de Vries, Shannon N. Tessier, Peony D. Banik in Nature Biotechnology (2019)

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    Subzero non-frozen preservation of human livers in the supercooled state

    Preservation of human organs at subzero temperatures has been an elusive goal for decades. The major complication hindering successful subzero preservation is the formation of ice at temperatures below freezin...

    Reinier J. de Vries, Shannon N. Tessier, Peony D. Banik, Sonal Nagpal in Nature Protocols (2020)