A Better Way To Freeze Organs For Transplantation

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/DYVJ6bWOBJ1/A real organ bank of ready to use kidneys, hearts, and livers is the dream of every patient on a waiting list and the surgeons who want to keep them alive. The problem is: freezing organs to ultra-low temperatures irreversibly damages them by inducing cracking.Now, new research from Texas A&M University, published in the journal Nature, shows that thermal stress and organ fracturing can be prevented freezing the tissue to a so-called “glass transition temperature.” The researchers developed the optimal strategy using a glass model and testing various solutions and temperature lowering procedures.In reporting this advance, the investigators give a nod to their University of Minnesota colleagues who have achieved successful transplantation of a previously frozen kidney in an animal model.Hopefully, this technique will lead to larger supply of transplantable organs…..someday soonThe references for this report are available on my website.#sciencebreakthrough #medicalinnovation #organtransplant #futuretech #healthnews