According to a study in the journal Nature Biotechnology, a patient received a donor liver that was stored for three days in a new machine that mimics a healthy human body more than a year after surgery.
The technology could significantly increase the number of livers suitable for transplant, the authors claim, both by allowing donor livers to be preserved for longer than current standards and by being able to repair the damaged livers. The organ is available but too damaged to be transplanted. .
Although more research is needed, the team believes that the new technique could allow a donor liver to be safely preserved for up to 12 days before transplantation. If effective, it could increase the ability to treat donor livers with drugs before surgery, expand the source of livers available to patients in need, and potentially save countless lives. Read full story.
—Rhiannon Williams
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I’ve scoured the internet to find you today’s most interesting/important/scary/fascinating stories about tech.
first Shanghai lifted its 65-day covid lockdown
Much of the relief of the exhausted residents of the city. (BBC)
+ For many people, the celebration resembles the Lunar New Year. (Guardians)
+ However, a negative covid test is still required 72 hours before using public transport. (CNN)
2 Supreme Court Blocks Texas Attempts To Control Social Media
But the ban by the law, which would make content moderation impossible, is only temporary. (Vox)
+ Racist content that radicalizes extremists is freely available on mainstream platforms. (NYT $)
+ Why can’t social media continue to censor content in the dark. (MIT . Technology Review)
3 NSO proposes to sell its spyware tool to known risk customers
In a desperate attempt to make money, human rights groups reveal its abuse. (FT $)
+ Inside NSO, Israel’s billion-dollar spyware giant. (MIT . Technology Review)
4 What 60s sci-fi novels tell us about Elon Musk
His habit of treating everything as a problem to be overcome ignores the underlying systems that created them. (Jacobin)
+ A new biography shows Musk’s success as inevitable, but tinged with sadness. (New Statesman $)
