The technology could boost the number of livers available for transplantation and offer new approaches to treating diseases such as liver cancer. Now experts have pushed such an approach even further, revealing a system that allows human livers to be stored for a week just below body temperature. The team initially developed the system using pig livers and carried out three liver transplants on the animals using livers that had been stored for a week. A few hours after transplantation, the team found no difference in the function or tissues of the livers compared with livers stored for just a few hours. The team found that all 10 livers lost weight during the course of the week and four deteriorated.

Source: The Guardian January 13, 2020 16:10 UTC