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[url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-05/chemical-cocktail-keeps-organs-alive-10-days-outside-body[/url]
[QUOTE]Staying alive on the organ transplant waiting list could get a bit easier with organs that last longer outside the body. That's the hope of Harvard startup Hibergenica, which looks to commercialize a liquid solution that preserves the metabolism of hearts and livers for about 10 days,[U][I][/I][/U][URL="http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25198/?ref=rss&a=f"][/URL] Technology Review reports.
The seemingly miraculous "Somah" solution comes from Hemant Thatte, an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Harvard Medical School and the VA Boston Healthcare System. He devised a cocktail of 21 chemical compounds which successfully preserved pig organs by slowing cell deterioration, and all without needing to lower the temperature of the preservation system.
Not only that, but Thatte's team also managed to actually restart a pig's heart in the lab by building an artificial circulatory system to support it. The Somah solution then helped keep it in a sort of stasis for 10 days.
"We're the first laboratory in the world to restart the heart 24 hours after death," Thatte told [I]PopSci[/I].
Existing preservation solutions can only preserve hearts for four hours, and livers for 12 hours. Extending that period to 10 days means that patients have access to a wider pool of less time-sensitive organs, because organs could be shipped from places as far away as Hawaii or other overseas locations. And that could potentially cut back on the more than 6,000 patients who died waiting for organs in 2008.
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Hmm.... 10-day Elixir of Life
Wow, this is quite the achievement. I bet they're going to end up winning a Nobel prize for this.
This plus organ printing, transplants will be 100X easier!
Also, the Syncardia heart is quite an achievement.
[url]http://www.syncardia.com/Patients-and-Caregivers/the-syncardia-total-artificial-heart-what-to-expect.html[/url]
Can't... stop... thinking... of Herbert... West...
This reminds me of a movie I saw a while back...Can't recall the name though...
Pretty fucking cool though.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;21749856]Can't... stop... thinking... of Herbert... West...[/QUOTE]
This.
[b]This.[/b]
[highlight][i]THIS OH MY GOD IT'S PROBABLY HIM BEHIND THE WHOLE PROJECT[/i][/highlight]
Stop playing God
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
but [I]moooooom [/I]I'm Advancing human civilization! just 5 more minutes! [I]:saddowns:[/I]
wow, this is pretty amazing
[QUOTE=IceCKryss;21749663]Wow, this is quite the achievement. I bet they're going to end up winning a Nobel prize for this.[/QUOTE]
No obama will win it again :downs:
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
It's comments like these that make me wish I could cock drop people through the internet.
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
Better than being the Devil.
I'm pumped.
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
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Is this some form of that zombie elixir thing the government was working on a while back to keep soldiers in stasis after being shot?
This might help out people who get stuck on long waiting lists for organs.
:monocle:
Yay for health related discoveries.
My heart skipped a beat when I read this!
Potion get
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[QUOTE=IceCKryss;21749663]Wow, this is quite the achievement. I bet they're going to end up winning a Nobel prize for this.[/QUOTE]
Except that they only give it to people that didn't do jack.
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
Why? No one else is
[QUOTE=cNova;21750810]Stop playing God[/QUOTE]
nice avatar
Could you like keep pumping this into people to make them live forever?
[QUOTE=redonkulous;21758757]Is this some form of that zombie elixir thing the government was working on a while back to keep soldiers in stasis after being shot?[/QUOTE]
No, I'm pretty sure the military pig zombie elixir was a protein that causes the body to go into some sort of safe coma if you have traumatic injuries. This just slows down deterioration of the heart.
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