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Heart transplant breakthrough as organ is brought back to life

September 30, 2018 by Leo

A Sydney man has become the first in the world to receive a new donor heart that was kept alive in a box and scanned for disease before transplant.

Source: Heart transplant breakthrough as organ is brought back to life

The headline’s a tad confusing, but the tech is not: keeping a heart alive and beating, and being able to scan it before a transplant is pretty amazing.

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