If the gas can be shown to have the same effect on humans, it might
revolutionize organ preservation and general anesthesia and let wounded soldiers survive long enough to reach a hospital.
Learn how nanotechnology will play a pivotal role
in organ preservation and transplantation in the coming years.
Warm liver preservation could also open the door to further treatment of donor organs, says Jedediah Lewis, chief executive of
the Organ Preservation Alliance, a non-profit organization in Berkeley, California.
In addition, UC San Diego Medical Center's clinical research programs are at the forefront of discovering new information on the biology of organ rejection,
organ preservation and long - term medical management for transplant recipients.
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Organ preservation, organ and cell transplantation, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine: the terms may change, but the goals remain the same.