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Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them — a ‘historic’ step that could someday transform transplant medicine (www.statnews.com)

In all, five rats received a vitrified-then-thawed kidney in a study whose results were published this month in Nature Communications. It’s the first time scientists have shown it’s possible to successfully and repeatedly transplant a life-sustaining mammalian organ after it has been rewarmed from this icy metabolic arrest.

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