Cryogenic damage has long presented a significant barrier to effective organ preservation, posing challenges to advancements in transplantation and medical treatments. The formation of ice ...

The strange world of organ preservation is spawning new tech firms. OrganOx has added impetus to the industry with a $142mn funding raise.

SCS, which involves storing organs in a preservation solution at low temperatures (usually 4 °C), is simple and cost-effective. It has been widely used, for example, in Japan for kidney preservation.

The organ preservation rate in the nonoperative management cohort was 85% (39 of 46 patients). Local regrowth occurred in 15% of patients in the nonoperative management group, all between 4 and 18 ...

The study also suggests the new preservation temperature will allow more time to optimize immunologic matching between donor and recipients, and the possibility of performing lung transplantation ...

Organ preservation has become an attractive alternative to patients with rectal cancer who achieve a clinical complete response (cCR) after neoadjuvant therapy. 1 - 3 Strict surveillance programs ...