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Alisa Amador, 2022 Tiny Desk Contest Winner

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/01/2022 1:59:18 am PDT

The future is here now:

A world first: Human liver was treated in a machine and then successfully transplanted

The Liver4Life research has developed a perfusion machine that makes it possible to implant a human organ into a patient after a storage period of three days outside a body. The machine mimics the human body as accurately as possible, in order to provide ideal conditions for human livers. A pump serves as a replacement heart, an oxygenator replaces the lungs and a dialysis unit performs the functions of the kidneys. In addition, numerous hormone and nutrient infusions perform the functions of the intestine and pancreas.

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The team prepared the liver in the machine with various drugs. In this way, it was possible to transform the liver into a good human organ, even though it was originally not approved for transplantation due to its poor quality. […]

The patient was able to leave hospital a few days after the transplantation and is now doing well […]

So the question is: who will make the first successful womb?