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Organ Transplant Breakthrough Shows Human Liver Can Survive Outside The Body For Days
When a donor organ becomes available to someone in need of a transplant, medical personnel need to act quickly. It only takes a few hours for expanding ice crystals to damage delicate tissue, leaving a window of less than 12 hours to assess, transport, and implant the new organ.
This not only creates a tremendous time crunch to perform a delicate procedure, but leaves many organs unviable for transplantation.
But a new breakthrough could vastly improve the landscape of liver transplantation: Scientists kept a liver preserved for three days, in non-frozen conditions, before transplanting it into a patient.
Changing our DNA: ‘The age of human therapeutic gene editing is here’
If I’ve been reading the articles right, progeria may be cured soon. Really amazing.
Advances in gene editing have brought us ever closer to fixing some of the most devastating diseases of our time, such as progeria and sickle cell disease.
