Aubrey De Grey
SENS Research Foundation, USA
Title: Cryopreservation of organs and organisms: Signs of a new era
Biography
Biography: Aubrey De Grey
Abstract
Huge numbers of people worldwide die while on waiting lists for organ transplantation, purely because no one sufficiently
immunocompatible dies sufficiently nearby. This tragedy would be substantially reduced if organs could be maintained in a viable state long enough to survive intercontinental travel, and it would be virtually eliminated if organs could be preserved indefinitely. Moreover, in the research arena cryopreservation of biological material has the potential to eliminate huge manpower costs in the maintenance of breeding populations of laboratory animals (such as fruit flies) and to enhance the quality of tissue slices. I will review a number of dramatic recent advances in the cryopreservation field that promise to deliver immense progress in all these areas.