João Pedro de Magalhães
@jpsenescence
Scientist planning to live forever (so far so good!), professor decoding the genome @unibirmingham, geek, entrepreneur, speaker, writer, keen footballer.
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A major step towards organ cryopreservation! 🧊
A new preprint reports functional recovery of human-scale pig kidneys after vitrification and storage at −150°C for up to a year.
The kidneys showed vascular, metabolic and excretory function, and produced urine after transplantation.
Huge progress towards making organ banking (and ultimately human biostasis) a reality! 🚀
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