{"id":30023,"date":"2016-09-09T22:49:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T05:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-refrigerator-backpack-could-help-transport-vaccines-and-organs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:17:06","slug":"a-refrigerator-backpack-could-help-transport-vaccines-and-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/a-refrigerator-backpack-could-help-transport-vaccines-and-organs","title":{"rendered":"A Refrigerator Backpack Could Help Transport Vaccines And Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-refrigerator-backpack-could-help-transport-vaccines-and-organs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medical supply transportation is a serious problem in remote regions, where it may take weeks to transport a vaccine where it\u2019s most needed. But a British student has developed a simple device that might help get supplies where they need to go and save millions of lives in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Will Broadway of Loughborough University created the tank as a way to extend the life of fragile medical supplies, like vaccines, samples, and organs.<\/p>\n<p>The device uses a simple ammonia reaction that creates a cooling effect when charged. It can keep vaccines within a stable temperature realm for up to 30 days. While it\u2019s currently designed for vaccines, Broadway next wants to make it transport organs and tissues to people in need.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/new-refrigerator-could-help-transport-vaccines-and-organs?src=SOC&dom=fb\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/new-refrigerator-could-help-transport-...SOC&dom=fb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical supply transportation is a serious problem in remote regions, where it may take weeks to transport a vaccine where it\u2019s most needed. But a British student has developed a simple device that might help get supplies where they need to go and save millions of lives in the process. Will Broadway of Loughborough University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66291,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions\/66291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}