--- title: The quest to keep organs alive outside the body | daily.dev description: Researchers are making significant progress in organ preservation, addressing the critical shortage caused by organs surviving only hours outside the body. Key... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-quest-to-keep-organs-alive-outside-the-body-jukuydz57 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The quest to keep organs alive outside the body | daily.dev og:description: Researchers are making significant progress in organ preservation, addressing the critical shortage caused by organs surviving only hours outside the body. Key... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-quest-to-keep-organs-alive-outside-the-body-jukuydz57 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JUkUYdZ57.png og:image:alt: The quest to keep organs alive outside the body og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The quest to keep organs alive outside the body **[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers are making significant progress in organ preservation, addressing the critical shortage caused by organs surviving only hours outside the body. Key developments include supercooling pig kidneys to −4°C for days and successfully reimplanting them, cryopreservation research (already routine for eggs and embryos but not yet viable for whole organs), and machine perfusion devices that pump nutrients into organs to extend their viability. Recent milestones include keeping a human uterus alive outside the body for a day and developing perfusion systems for eyeballs that could enable whole-eye transplants. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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