Medicine:21st Century Medicine
21st Century Medicine (21CM) is a California cryobiological research company which has as its primary focus the development of perfusates and protocols for viable long-term cryopreservation of human organs, tissues and cells at temperatures below −100 °C through the use of vitrification. 21CM was founded in 1993.
In 2004 21CM received a $900,000 grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a preservation solution developed by the University of Rochester in New York for extending simple cold storage time of human hearts removed for transplant.[1]
At the July 2005 annual conference of the Society for Cryobiology, 21st Century Medicine announced the vitrification of a rabbit kidney to −135 °C with their vitrification mixture. The kidney was successfully transplanted upon rewarming to a rabbit, the rabbit being euthanized on the 48th day for histological follow-up.[2][3]
On February 9, 2016, 21st Century Medicine won the Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize.[4] On March 13, 2018, they won the Large Mammal Brain Preservation Prize.[5]
References
- ↑ "NIH grant to be used for heart preservation research". Business Wire. October 31, 2004. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/21st+Century+Medicine+Receives+NIH+Grant+to+Pursue+Heart+Preservation.-a0122727566.
- ↑ "Plenary Session: Fundamentals of Biopreservation". CRYO 2005 Scientific Program. Society for Cryobiology. July 24, 2005. http://www.me.umn.edu/events/cryo2005/program.html.
- ↑ "Physical and biological aspects of renal vitrification". Organogenesis 5 (3): 167–175. 2009. doi:10.4161/org.5.3.9974. PMID 20046680. "After ensuring that the animal appeared capable of living indefinitely using the vitrified kidney as the sole renal support, it was euthanized for histological follow-up on day 48.".
- ↑ Thomson, Helen. "Mammal brain frozen and thawed out perfectly for first time" (in en-US). https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077140-mammal-brain-frozen-and-thawed-out-perfectly-for-first-time/.
- ↑ Dvorsky, George (2018-03-14). "New Brain Preservation Technique Could Be a Path to Mind Uploading". https://gizmodo.com/new-brain-preservation-technique-could-be-a-path-to-min-1823741147.
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