2020.06.04

Staying Alive

A new machine preserves livers for a week outside the human body

New technology can preserve livers outside the body for up to a week before a transplant (seen in process here). Getty Images

New technology can preserve livers outside the body for up to a week before a transplant (seen in process here). Getty Images

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