An hour after pigs’ deaths, an artificial system restored cellular life
The preliminary technique could one day preserve human organs destined to be donated
In these images of pigs’ kidneys, green stain shows actin, a protein used by active cells. Cells appear brighter and healthier after being hooked up to a system called OrganEx (right) compared with cells in a pig connected to a traditional perfusion method called ECMO (left).
David Andrijevic, Zvonimir Vrselja, Taras Lysyy, Shupei Zhang/Sestan Laboratory/Yale School of Medicine