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Human organs come out of the deep cold

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Livers are stored in a supercooled state for extended periods, an approach that could expand access to liver transplantation.

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Fig. 1: Freezing versus supercooling.

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  1. UCL Division of Surgery & Interventional Sciences, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London, London, UK

    Barry J. Fuller

  2. UNESCO Chair in Cryobiology, University College London, London, UK

    Barry J. Fuller

  3. Department of Cryobiochemistry, Institute for Problems of Cryobiology & CryoMedicine, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Kharkov, Ukraine

    Alexander Petrenko

  4. Centro Binacional (Argentina – Italia) de Investigaciones en Criobiologia Clinica y Applicada (CAIC), Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina

    Edgardo Guibert

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Fuller, B.J., Petrenko, A. & Guibert, E. Human organs come out of the deep cold. Nat Biotechnol 37, 1127–1128 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0264-2

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