A new device could ultimately increase the number of usable livers for transplants and could perhaps preserve other types of organs
More than 1,000 people in the U.S. died while waiting for a liver transplant in 2018, partly because standard preservation methods can keep a donor liver alive outside the body for only about 24 hours. But now, in a feat of medical engineering, scientists have developed a machine that can keep a liver functional for a week or more. It has not yet been used for human transplants, but the technology represents a leap forward in the field of organ preservation.
