Welcome to the limb lab

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3155, 2017, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Wilson talks about a daring experiment to keep organs alive on shelves for days. Based at the University of Manchester UK, James Fildes is mainly working with pig legs and organs sourced from a local abattoir. But he is also experimenting with human organs deemed unsuitable for transplants, when they are available. The body parts are hooked up to a blood supply, which nourishes them with food and oxygen. It may sound gruesome, but this work could make more organs available for transplant, lead to new ways to treat cancer, and allow more limbs to be reattached after accidents. The standard way of preserving a limb or organ for transplant is to put it in an icebox, similar to the kind of cooler you might use to keep beers cold.