{"id":235989,"date":"2026-04-27T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-discover-how-to-freeze-transplant-organs-without-cracking-them"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:09:01","slug":"scientists-discover-how-to-freeze-transplant-organs-without-cracking-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-discover-how-to-freeze-transplant-organs-without-cracking-them","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover how to freeze transplant organs without cracking them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-how-to-freeze-transplant-organs-without-cracking-them.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are making a major leap toward freezing organs for future use without damaging them. A new study reveals that one of the biggest obstacles\u2014cracking during ultra-cold preservation\u2014can be reduced by carefully tuning the temperature at which tissues enter a glass-like state. This breakthrough builds on recent successes in cryopreserved organ transplants and could bring the long-imagined idea of \u201cbanking\u201d organs for later use much closer to reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are making a major leap toward freezing organs for future use without damaging them. A new study reveals that one of the biggest obstacles\u2014cracking during ultra-cold preservation\u2014can be reduced by carefully tuning the temperature at which tissues enter a glass-like state. This breakthrough builds on recent successes in cryopreserved organ transplants and could bring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}