![]() The researchers made clear that they were not in any sense bringing the pigs back to life and more work would need to be done to understand whether the organs were useable for transplants. “You could take the organ from a deceased donor, and hook it up to the perfusion technology, and perhaps then be able to transport it long distance over a long period of time to get it to a recipient who needs it.” “I think the technology has a great deal of promise for our ability to preserve organs after they’re removed from a donor,” said coauthor Stephen Latham, director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, at the briefing. The current supply of organs is extremely limited, with millions of people worldwide waiting for transplants. ![]() While the research is still at an extremely early stage and very experimental, the researchers said they hoped that their work in pigs could ultimately be applied to humans, primarily in terms of developing ways to extend the window for transplants. ![]()
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