‘Inside-the-box’ technology solves organ and vaccine transport issue – Medical Xpress

Following a fatal car crash, a registered organ donor could save the lives of many patients awaiting heart, kidney, liver, lung or pancreas transplantation. Once doctors successfully remove vital organs, they are carefully placed in what are essentially beverage coolers in an attempt to synchronize temperature with the ice cubes also packed within.
Yet these simple organ storage and transportation systems have seen little change since organ transplants started in the late 1960s. There has to be…

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