{"id":6905,"date":"2023-06-23T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2023-06-22T06:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T13:40:02","slug":"scientists-successfully-unfroze-rat-organs-and-transplanted-them-a-historic-step-that-could-someday-transform-transplant-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/06\/23\/scientists-successfully-unfroze-rat-organs-and-transplanted-them-a-historic-step-that-could-someday-transform-transplant-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully unfroze rat organs and transplanted them \u2014 a \u2018historic\u2019 step that could someday transform transplant medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6905\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Marion Renault<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rat kidney was peculiarly beautiful \u2014 an edgeless viscera about the size of a quarter, gemstone-like and gleaming as if encased in pure glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It owed its veneer to a frosty, minus 150-degree Celsius plunge into liquid nitrogen, a process known as vitrification, that shocked the kidney into an icy state of suspended animation. Then researchers at the University of Minnesota restarted the kidney\u2019s biological clock, rewarming it before transplanting it back into a live rat \u2014 who survived the ordeal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/06\/21\/cryogenic-organ-preservation-transplants\/\">Read the full article<\/a> in STAT.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"6905\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Marion Renault The rat kidney was peculiarly beautiful \u2014 an edgeless viscera about the size of a quarter, gemstone-like and gleaming as if encased in pure glass. 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