Scientists are rethinking conventional methods of shipping donated organs on ice. New technology developed by TransMedics, a U.S.-based biotech company, can keep a human heart beating until it arrives in the operating room for transplant. Scientists say that organs transported this way are more viable and could increase the number of transplantable hearts by 15-30 percent, saving the lives of more patients waiting for a new heart.
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