Organ donation: new technique can preserve human livers for a week

Week-long storage boosts time organs are usable and distances over which they can be moved

Human livers from organ donors can now be preserved for a week, researchers have revealed, a dramatic improvement on previous techniques, which could only keep the organs usable for a matter of hours.

The technology could boost the number of livers available for transplantation and offer new approaches to treating diseases such as liver cancer.