Supercooling makes livers for transplants last longer

Chilling to subzero temperatures greatly increased survival time of rats’ organs outside the body

CHILLED A rat liver, removed for transplantation, is supercooled in the lab. 

Wally Reeves, K. Uygun/Harvard Univ., Martin Yarmush 

“Supercold but unfrozen” is the idea behind a new procedure that tripled the time a rat liver can survive outside the body.