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Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction

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The Benefits of Vitrification

The University of Minnesota has successfully vitrified, re-warmed, and then transplanted rat kidneys. They have now moved on to working with pig kidneys, which are much closer to the size of a human kidney. Scientists also in this field say they think that we can get a lot of benefits from not getting that cold.

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