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The first successful transplantation of a cryopreserved rat kidney has indicated that long-term storage of human organs for transplantation may be possible.
Engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Mayo Clinic have developed a new process for successfully storing specialized pancreatic islet cells at very low temperatures and rewarming them, enabling the potential for on-demand islet transplantation.