In the heart of Boston’s busy biomedical hub is the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM), a relatively young enterprise affiliated with some the area’s premier research institutions, including MGH, the Shriners Hospitals for Children, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
One of MGH-CEM’s important focus areas is biopreservation, the exploration and development of novel protective strategies to ensure the survival of biological matter in a desiccated, frozen or supercooled state.
Recently, the center announced that it is working on developing a simple method to extend the preservation times of blood cells, tissues and organs. gasworld spoke with O. Berk Usta (left), PhD, of MGH-CEM and assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, regarding the importance of this new application.
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