Livers for transplant can now be kept alive at body temperature

Now for a bit of metra-analysis WHEN Constantin Coussios, a biomedical engineer at Oxford University, arrived one day in 2013 at the transplant centre of King's College Hospital, in London, with a liver for their use, he triggered a brief flurry of panic. Two other livers had arrived at the same time. The hospital had only one operating theatre in which liver transplants could be carried out--and because livers intended for transplant can be kept in cold storage for no longer than 12 hours, the ...