HEALTH: Hearts kept alive outside the body

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Oct 07 2001 - 07:51:16 MDT

CNN has a story about a device from TransMedics that
allows kidneys and hearts to be kept alive outside
of a human body.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/07/organ.preservation.ap/index.html

This is one more piece of the puzzle that will eventually allow
laboratory grown replacement organs.

Robert

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