
Ep. 220: “Developmental and Synthetic Biology” Featuring Dr. Michael Levin
The Stem Cell Podcast
XVivo XC2 Preservation for Liver Transplantation
This liver would have otherwise been discarded, but they utilize their unique XVivo XC2 approach to preserve it for up to a week before actually implanting it into a patient who needed this liver. And that patient's doing extremely well. So we know that these current organ preservation methods have a pretty narrow window. They say usually less than 12 hours to actually assess transport and implant donor graphs for human transplantation. This is really a cut above what's out there for preservation of liver's long term.
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