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[TheBiggerFish]

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

But not the biologists.

What if you put the apple in some sort of apple-cannon?

You'll just attract engineers.

[Max™]

"Yeah, hello, is this Doctor Braeburn? Good, good, yes, I was wondering if you could help me since I recently took the liberty of expanding my melon with that tip you gave me? Yeah, last time I had a check up you said I really should read Delicious! by, oh what's her name, Roxbury, Russet? Man, it's sitting right on the tip of my tongue like a delicious dollop of mint chocolate chip ice cream after watching a sunset in summer, free of worries... Where was I?  Oh no no, I wasn't calling about the ear transplants, though I am glad to hear they're helping Sonya out, how's her mother doing these days? Good, good, but to get right down to it, I was wondering if you could put some apples where my ears are so I don't end up like my old Granny Smith did before she went away to that old folks home down in Melrose... I really do miss her melba though, so what do you say doc? Am I facing down the limelight of my sanity or can you jazz me up like old king jupiter?..."

[ChairmanPoo]

I think this is old news. The concept was that the apple cellulose could serve as a scaffold for vascular networks

[martinuzz]

US scientist might have made a breakthrough in solving part of the problems with freezing donor organs.
Up until now, the process of unfreezing donor organs caused damage, and even tearing, from temperature differences within the organ.

The researchers have found a clever way to defrost tissues uniformly and evenly.
Using a rinsable fluid, they added iron oxide nano particles to the organs before freezing them.

Next, they used a magnetic field to heat the iron oxide particles within the organ. The tissues tested survived undamaged, contrary to the control samples defrosted in a conventional way.

They did not test the procedure with entire organs yet. They used smaller tissue samples. The method proved effective on both pig as well as human tissues.

Robert Porte, transplantation surgeon at the Dutch University Medical Centre Groningen does question the usefulness though.
"It's a nice piece of work, and scientifically very solid. However, over the past few years, the trend has been to abandon the idea of freezing organs. Another technique is much more advanced; using artificial blood circulation to keep donor organs alive is already starting to see application in the field, making cooling or freezing obsolete."

[Reelya]

Robert Porte, transplantation surgeon at the Dutch University Medical Centre Groningen does question the usefulness though.

More options is always better however. If a technique is abandoned, then an improvement in the abandoned technique is still worth pursuing as it might make it viable in more circumstances. Cryogenic suspension could advance due to this discovery for example.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Cryo is something to pursue. If you go with artificial support, you need that complex system to be present to preserve an organ. If you have an effective way to defrost, then in an emergency situation you need...a freezer box. This opens up some obvious utility.

[Levi]

Scientists Have Found a Way To Rapidly Thaw Cryopreserved Tissue Without Damage

Good news for all of us who have arranged to have their brains frozen in a icy vat.  Um, probably just me I guess.

[TheBiggerFish]

Yeah, I was gonna say.

[Levi]

Oh geez, I did. 

[hops]

Cryostasis might become a thing very soon!

[Max™]

Guys, I think all the freshly thawed corpsicles are just getting the news, it's ok.

[TheBiggerFish]

Heh.

[Egan_BW]

Time to put myself in a freezer marked "Open in Trappist".

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Time to put myself in a freezer marked "Open in Trappist".

Hope you're ready to skip fifty thousand years and get woken up by the post-apocalyptic remnants of humanity orbiting a dead world singed by a red dwarf because they think you're the prophesied savior because their badly rampant AI guardian told them so.

Come on man, have some foresight here.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, it'll be badass.