A patient who received a given liver that had been stored for three days in a new type of machine that mimics the human body is healthy one year after surgery, according to a study in Nature Biotechnology.
The technology could significantly increase the number of liver suitable for transplantation, the authors say, both by allowing donor livers to be kept longer than the current standard, and by allowing the repair of organs that are available but too damaged by to transplantation as is the case. .
Although more research is needed, the team believes the new technique could allow donor livers to be stored safely for up to 12 days before transplantation. If it works, it could increase the likelihood of treating donors’ livers with drugs before surgery, expanding the availability of livers for patients who need them, and potentially save countless lives. Read the whole story.
—Rhiannon Williams
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I combed the Internet to find the funniest / most important / scary and fascinating stories about technology.
1 Shanghai has lifted the 65-day confinement for covid
Much to the relief of the exhausted residents of the city. (BBC)
+ For many citizens, the celebrations have felt like Chinese New Year. (The Guardian)
+ However, a negative covid test is still required 72 hours before taking public transportation. (CNN)
2 The Supreme Court has blocked Texas’ attempt to control social media
But the order banning the law, which would make content moderation impossible, is only temporary. (Vox)
+ Racist content that radicalizes extremists is available for free on major platforms. (NOW $)
+ Why social media can’t keep content moderation in the shadows. (MIT Technology Review)
3 NSO proposed to sell its spyware tool to known risk clients
In a desperate attempt to make money, despite human rights groups revealing their abuses. (FT $)
+ Inside NSO, the $ 1 billion Israeli spyware giant. (MIT Technology Review)
4 What a 1960s science fiction novel about Elon Musk tells us
Their habit of treating everything as a problem to be solved ignores the underlying systems that created them. (Jacobí)
+ A new biography paints Musk’s success as inevitable, but tainted with sadness. (New statesman $)